Security News > 2021 > July > Comparis customers targeted by scammers after ransomware attack
Leading Swiss price comparison platform Comparis has notified customers of a data breach following a ransomware attack that hit and took down its entire network last week.
"On 7 July, the Comparis Group was the victim of an organized cyber attack of a highly criminal nature. Comparis immediately took all the steps necessary to protect all data," the company explains in an official statement.
The Comparis Group informed the Swiss law enforcement authorities and the Swiss Federal Data Protection Commissioner of the attack and works with their cybercrime experts to investigate the incident.
As the online platform discovered during the investigation, the ransomware operators behind the attack could gain access to and likely steal customer data stored on Comparis Group's systems.
The company says that the attackers have accessed account data belonging to Comparis and Comparis sister companies' customers, including passwords "Stored as a hash."
Comparis says these calls and contact attempts are either from scammers trying to take advantage of the cyberattack and calling potentially impacted people randomly or using older address lists, with no direct relation to the data theft reported following the ransomware attack.
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