Security News > 2021 > January > Hacker sells Aurora Cannabis files stolen in Christmas cyberattack
A hacker is selling the data stolen from cannabis giant Aurora Cannabis after breaching their systems on Christmas day.
Aurora Cannabis is a Canadian cannabis producer listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Marijuana Business Daily reported that former and current employees received data breach notifications from Aurora Cannabis after the company suffered a cyberattack on December 25th, 2020.
The data breach notifications describe what data was stolen in the attack, with each employee reporting different compromised data.
Today, the hacker behind the Aurora Cannabis attack began selling the stolen data on a hacker forum for one bitcoin, approximately 39,000 at today's prices.
After stealing the data, the hacker states they contacted Aurora Cannabis to ransom the data back to them, but "All them ignore this breach."