Security News > 2021 > September > Trucking giant Forward Air reports ransomware data breach
Trucking giant Forward Air has disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack that allowed threat actors to access employees' personal information.
An SEC filing by Forward Air states that the company lost $7.5 million of less than load freight revenue "Primarily because of the Company's need to temporarily suspend its electronic data interfaces with its customers."
As part of the attack, the threat actors created a Twitter account that they claimed would be used to leak data stolen from Forward Air.
Fast forward almost a year, and Forward Air is now disclosing that current and the ransomware attack exposed former employees' data.
"On December 15, 2020, Forward Air learned of suspicious activity occurring within certain company computer systems. Forward Air immediately launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident," reads a data breach notification sent to Forward Air employees.
While Forward Air states that there is no indication that the data has been misused, they are offering affected people a free one-year membership to the myTrueIdentity credit monitoring service.
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