Security News > 2023 > April > The Week in Ransomware - April 14th 2023 - A Focus on Stolen Data
This week, theft of customer data remains the focus, with Yum! Brands sending data breach notifications for a ransomware attack in January.
April 10th 2023 KFC, Pizza Hut owner discloses data breach after ransomware attack.
Yum! Brands, the brand owner of the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell fast food chains, is now sending data breach notification letters to an undisclosed number of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a January 13 ransomware attack.
Cybersecurity firm Darktrace says it found no evidence that the LockBit ransomware gang breached its network after the group added an entry to their dark web leak platform, implying that they stole data from the company's systems.
Vice Society ransomware uses new PowerShell data theft tool in attacks.
The Vice Society ransomware gang is deploying a new, rather sophisticated PowerShell script to automate data theft from compromised networks.