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Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes


Hand over the dough or your 40GB of secret data is toast.

The above Tweet taunted Schneider about the purported success of a recent cyber attack, and a follow-up post in the thread reveals an example chunk of data. At the time of writing, it is difficult to know exactly whether Schneider has satisfied the ransom admission clause, as it released a statement to Bleeping Computer that doesn’t exactly confirm the scale of the purported breach. The firm also said its Global Incident Response team was on the case straight away, but insisted that “Schneider Electric's products and services remain unaffected.”

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