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Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes
(www.tomshardware.com)
That's a lot of dough
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
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Accessed through Jira huh, that's pretty epic but this aggression will not stand up! I can imagine the hackers sprinting away with baguettes under the their arm. Such a scrummy thing to do.
Well what should they do about it? They kanban them...
Misleading headline.
From a different site:
with attackers demanding a $150,000 ransom in “baguettes,” an obtuse reference to the company’s headquarters being located in France. In reality, the attackers are looking for payment in Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency.
https://cyberscoop.com/schneider-electric-energy-ransomware-hellcat/
However, the hacker(s) indicated, that should Schneider publicly admit to this latest data breach, the ransom would be cut in half. Thus, the ransom demanded would decrease to $62,500 worth of baguettes, we would presume. Even with a 50% deduction, that’s still a lot of dough.
published November 5, 2024
Well, today’s the 12th. What happened?
But they’d go rock hard stale before you got through 4 of them!
While I despise all these hackers these days, I feel like these companies deserve it, for their utterly non-existent data handling protocols.
TIL that Schneider Electric is a French company. I always assumed it was American or Swiss.
I'm French and I assumed it was German
LOL
Well, obviously? What else do you demand to go with your cheese?
Just some blokes making sandwiches, nothing to see here.
A lot of whine
Such a strange world. These kind of stories makes it funny to read the headlines from time to time.