Foxconn suffered a ransomware attack at its Mexican facility over the Thanksgiving weekend, by DoppelPaymer ransomware gang.
Foxconn suffered a ransomware attack at its Mexican facility over the Thanksgiving weekend, by DoppelPaymer ransomware gang.
Foxconn is the largest electronics manufacturing company, with its headquarters in Taiwan. The company has over 800,000 employees worldwide and revenue of $172 billion in 2019. Foxconn subsidiaries include Sharp Corporation, FIH Mobile, Innolux and Belkin.
Sources confirmed that Foxconn suffered an attack around November 29th, 2020 at their Foxconn CTBG MX facility located in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
The facilities servers were down since the attack and presently shows an error to visitors.
“The leaked data includes generic business documents and reports but does not contain any financial information or employee's details,” reported BleepingComputer.
Sources also shared a ransom note demanding a 1804.0955 BTC ransom, or approximately $34,686,000 as per today's bitcoin prices on the company servers. The ransom note included a link to Foxconn’s victim page on DoppelPaymer’s Tor payment site.
DoppelPaymer confirms that they attacked Foxconn’s North America facility on November 29th but did not attack the whole company.
The hackers claim to have encrypted about 1,200 servers, stole 100 GB of unencrypted does and deleted 20-30 TB of backups.
“We encrypted NA segment, not whole Foxconn, it's about 1200-1400 servers, and not focused on workstations. They also had about 75TB's of misc backups, what we were able to - we destroyed (approx 20-30TB)," DoppelPaymer told BleepingComputer.
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