SFor weeks there has been an alarm mood on Vahrenwalder Strasse in Hanover, where the automotive supplier Continental has its headquarters. After hackers captured around 40 terabytes of data from the group in one attack – a volume that corresponds to around 260 million document pages – the internal investigation is in full swing. Supervisory boards want to know how critical the information that was siphoned off is. So far, there is still far too little clarity, says an inspector. The committee got a first interim result last week at a special meeting. Until the next regular meeting on December 14th, further answers should now be forthcoming.
The most important and – according to everything that is known – the only clue is provided by a list that the hacker group “Lockbit 3.0” published on a blog on the dark web. Millions of lines list files that were allegedly copied from Conti’s systems, from technical sketches to correspondence with customers and personal information from employees. In painstaking detail, specialists from the automotive supplier are now looking for the original files on their own computers and network computers. You open each one and try to assess the danger if it falls into the wrong hands. According to information from the FAZ, they are supported by the auditing company KPMG.