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NCR is suffering an outage on its Aloha point of sale platform after being hit by an ransomware attack claimed by the BlackCat/ALPHV gang. After days of silence, NCR has disclosed today that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack on data centers used to power their Aloha POS platform.
On Friday, five days into a massive outage impacting its cloud services, Western Digital finally provided customers with a workaround to access their files. The complete list of services that were down throughout this week includes My Cloud, My Cloud Home, My Cloud Home Duo, My Cloud OS 5, SanDisk ibi, and SanDisk Ixpand Wireless Charger, together with linked mobile, desktop, and web apps.
Capita - everyone's favorite outsourcing badass - is still working to restore services for some customers after admitting the IT outage of certain services on Friday was caused by a cyber attack and efforts to contain the spread. The shape shifting tech biz, which has £6.5 billion worth of public sector contracts booked in, said before the weekend that a technical problem meant staff couldn't access work IT, including Microsoft cloud accounts. The cause of that blackout was confirmed today, with Capita saying via its website that on March 31 the biz "Experienced a cyber incident primarily impacting access to internal Microsoft 365 applications. This caused disruption to some services provided to individual clients, though the majority of our client services remained in operation."
US-based data storage company Western Digital has announced that it has suffered a network security incident that resulted in an unauthorized third party gaining access to a number of the company's systems and some company data. Western Digital identified the network security incident on March 26, 2023.
LockBit ransomware has claimed a cyber attack on Essendant, a wholesale distributer of office products after a "Significant" and ongoing outage knocked the company's operations offline. As earlier reported by BleepingComputer, Essendant's wide-spread network outage has been preventing placement or fulfillment of online orders, and impacting both the company's customers and suppliers.
Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps. According to its official status page, Reddit confirmed that its website and apps are currently down, and its engineers looking into the root cause of this outage.
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Essendant, a wholesale distributor of stationary and office supplies, is experiencing a multi-day systems "Outage" preventing customers and suppliers from placing and fulfilling online orders. Headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, Essendant also operates in Dubai, UAE. A systems outage at Essendant is preventing the placement or fulfillment of online orders, thereby impacting both the company's customers and suppliers.
Twitter users are experiencing issues worldwide when trying to log in or log out and when attempting to share their tweets, click links, embed tweets, and see images. Thousands of Twitter users have already reported having issues with the Twitter website, the app, and when trying to connect to Twitter servers, according to DownDetector.