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158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password — 700 jobs lost after hackers demand unpayable sum
An employee’s weak password was the company’s Achilles' heel.
Around 500 Northamptonshire-based Knights of Old (KNP) trucks are now off the road, and 700 people have lost their jobs, due to money-grasping cyberattackers, named as ‘Akira’ in a BBC report. “If you're reading this it means the internal infrastructure of your company is fully or partially dead… Let's keep all the tears and resentment to ourselves and try to build a constructive dialogue,” says the BBC report. However, we feel there’s something missing from the BBC report as it next says, “In the end all the data was lost, and the company went under.” Surely there was some further contact with ‘Akira’ and an attempt at negotiation…
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