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Novartis says no sensitive data was compromised in cyberattack

posted onJune 5, 2022
by l33tdawg
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Pharmaceutical giant Novartis says no sensitive data was compromised in a recent cyberattack by the Industrial Spy data-extortion gang.

Industrial Spy is a hacking group that runs an extortion marketplace where they sell data stolen from compromised organizations. Yesterday, the hacking group began selling data allegedly stolen from Novartis on their Tor extortion marketplace for $500,000 in bitcoins.

The threat actors claim that the data is related to RNA and DNA-based drug technology and tests from Novartis and were stolen "directly from the laboratory environment of the manufacturing plant." The data being sold consists of 7.7 MB of PDF files, which all have a timestamp of 2/25/2022 04:26, likely when the data was stolen. As the amount of data for sale is minimal, it is not clear if this is all the threat actors stole or if they have further data to sell later.

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