2024-09-17 03:47:31
The European Kawasaki branch was the target of a cyber attack. Shortly afterwards, a 500 GB data set was published on the Internet.
Kawasaki’s European headquarters in the Netherlands have been attacked by hackers. The motorcycle manufacturer announced this on its website. The attack, which took place at the beginning of September, was “unsuccessful” according to Kawasaki.
Information from a well-known hacker group casts doubt on this, writes the IT magazine “Golem”. The ransomware group Ransomhub claimed responsibility for the attack in September and claimed to have stolen 487 GB of data from the motorcycle manufacturer.
According to the “Golem” editorial team, which said it had looked at the data on a random basis, it listed “telephone numbers and other contact details of representatives of the respective dealers”.
The “verification of the data suggests that it is genuine,” it says. It is currently not possible to estimate whether the stolen data also contains customer information, it continues.
Kawasaki, meanwhile, says that after the attack, it decided to “isolate the company’s servers and set up a cleanup process to review all data and identify and address any suspicious material.”
Shortly afterwards, over 90 percent of the server functions were restored, the company said. Kawasaki also worked with cybersecurity consultants to eliminate the consequences of the attack. The company has not commented on the data published online.
“Golem” writes that Kawasaki has not yet responded to a request from the magazine. The editors wanted to have the authenticity of the data set confirmed.
Most recently, the hacker group Ransomhub attracted attention by blackmailing the auction house Christie’s. Shortly before the New York spring auctions in May, the hackers shut down the company’s website and threatened to publish sensitive customer data.