On November 10, the list of victims of the BlackCat extortion gang was replenished with a new victim – Conforama, which is the second largest retail network for home furniture in Europe. The company has more than 200 stores in the following countries: France, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Luxembourg, Italy and Croatia.
On her website, Blackcat boasted stolen and stated that Conforama has everything very bad with security systems and protection of their users. Extortionists gave the company 48 hours to contact them, otherwise all the stolen data will be posted in open access.
Attackers promised that in case of refusal they would use the financial data of customers for illegal purposes, as well as merge all internal marketing and analytical data to the competitors of Conforama. According to hackers, the payment of ransom is the only chance of conforama to save your reputation, business, customer data and partners.
, as a confirmation of the seriousness of their intentions, Blackcat laid out more than two dozen internal documents of the company on the site. Representatives of Conforama have not yet commented on the incident and ignore messages from the media.