Security News > 2023 > August > Seiko joins growing list of ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware victims

Japanese watchmaker Seiko has been added to ALPHV ransomware group's victim list, following a data breach occurring in early August.

The company published a data breach and response notice on August 10, 2023, stating that an unidentified party gained unauthorized access to at least one of their servers.

On August 2, Seiko hired a team of external cybersecurity experts to investigate the data breach.

"As a result, we are now reasonably certain that there was a breach and that some information stored by our Company and/or our Group companies may have been compromised," the company noted.

On August 21, ALPHV/BlackCat claimed the Seiko data breach by publishing data samples stolen during the attack on their leak site.

Microsoft has recently discovered a new version of the BlackCat ransomware leveraged by the group's affiliates in their latest campaigns.

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