Yamaha Motor Philippines, the cool subsidiary of the Japanese powerhouse, got hit with a ransomware attack in late October. Yep, they confirmed it.
Shortly after, some hacking group owned up to it and even spilled the beans by leaking data they supposedly swiped during the attack.
They spotted the breach on October 25, making it clear it messed with just one server. The good news? Their main HQ and all other branches were apparently in the clear. They did the responsible thing and reported the whole shebang to the authorities in the Philippines, and now there’s an investigation in the works.
In a press release, Yamaha Motor spilled the beans: “Hey, one of our servers in the Philippines got hit by a sneaky third party in a ransomware attack. Personal info of some employees got leaked, too.”
As soon as they caught wind of the attack, Yamaha Motor’s IT wizards in Japan and the Philippines joined forces to stop more chaos. They’re on the grind, figuring out how bad it got and teaming up with an outside internet security crew to bounce back. But, truth be told, they’re not sure how long it’ll take to clean up the whole mess.
Now, they didn’t spill the tea on who these attackers are, but there’s a group called INC Ransom that said, “Yeah, that was us.” And to prove it, they tossed out 37GB of data on November 15. Employee IDs, backup files, corporate stuff, and sales data – you name it, it’s out there.
