The travel agency “Voyageur du monde” was hit by a cyberattack by Lockbit hackers. Many customer data, including passports, are now available online.
The famous cybercriminal group Lockbit has made a new victim in France. Data from travel agency “Voyageurs du monde” was posted on the ransomware collective’s darknet site on May 30. The company had been hit by a cyberattack on the night of May 15-16. The group notified this accident to the CNIL and specified in a press release ” to date, no customer or payment data has been stolen “. Two weeks later, Lockbit reveals a database on its platform, including a lot of personal information.
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Numerama has seen that many passports are immediately visible and downloadable, along with telephone numbers and addresses. Julien Métayer, cybersecurity expert lists more than 8,000. He also tells us that “ many other customer details are online “, as well as corporate documents such as ” supplier contracts “. Typically, ransomware groups release this data after the victim company refuses to pay.
Lockbit is considered the most prolific hacker group in the ransomware space with nearly 200 attacks per month. In France, these cybercriminals are known to have paralyzed the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital or the cosmetics company Nuxe. The collective manages a malware that it rents out to around a hundred “affiliates”. The latter target companies, administrations, hospitals, and pay a commission when they manage to obtain a sum. If the ransom is not paid, the data is dumped online and is more often retrieved and traded on the darknet. It is recommended to contact the company to find out if your information has been compromised.
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