Documents, some of which contain sensitive data such as social security numbers, have already been disseminated. The Hive Group, which has claimed the attack, has more than 1,300 victims worldwide, according to American authorities.
by mo12345lemonde.fr
of IT systems from the Intersport group were victims of an attack and personal documents relating to employees were stolen and then disseminated on the Internet, noted MO12345lemonde Tuesday, December 6. The attack was claimed by the Cybercriminel Hive group, which published the first files on its website.
Among the data put online, there are notably employees pay slips of an Intersport store in the north of France. Passeport photocopies of employees have also been disseminated as well as declarations of accident at work and what appears as lists of employees or former employees of several stores, sometimes including sensitive data such as the social security number. These documents are presented by Hive as a “proof” of the success of his attack, which suggests that other personal data may have been stolen.
an attack raised at the end of November
Contacted by MO12345lemonde, the Intersport group did not wish to comment on the publication of these documents, adding that the analysis of the attack continued. On November 24, the company had already recognized with La Voix du Nord that the operation of a small number of its stores, Essentially in the North, had been disturbed by a cyber attack.
The Hive cybercriminal group works like most suspects practicing ransom: its members or partners infiltrate their victims’ network, try to take control of several devices, then lock the files after having exfiltrated data , asking the companies or organizations targeted a ransom to be able to unlock access. The American authorities recently estimated that this group , in activity for almost two years, had targeted more than 1,300 entities worldwide and cashed around $ 100 million in ransom.