Large companies are often the target of cyber attacks. One of these companies is Casio happened. Japanese electronics giant Casio first announced on October 7 that it had been subjected to a cyber attack. This statement applies company-wide “system failure” Although it was stated that the attack took place, no information was given about the details of the attack.

A new statement from Casio has been made on this subject. With this statement, one of the attacks ransomware attack It turned out to be so. It was revealed that the information leaked in this attack included personal information of Cisco employees, subcontractors, business partners, and people who interviewed the company. It was also confirmed that billing information, employee files and sensitive company data had been accessed.

The identities of the attackers have not been released

Casio also confirmed that some customer data was accessed during the attack. On the other hand Japanese companyAlthough allegations that credit card information was compromised were denied, Casio ID and ClassPad services were not affected by this attack.

Japanese giant behind the attack person or group about did not provide any information. However, it was claimed that the attack was carried out by the group known as Underground. This group started operations in June 2023. Microsoft has previously reported these ransomware operations. Russia linked cybercrime group RomCom.

Casio from the underground band 200GB It was stated that he had leaked data and wanted to force the company to pay a ransom by publishing these files containing sensitive data such as legal documents, salary information and personal information of Casio employees. Casio has not yet been able to determine the extent of the damage caused by the ransomware and some systems are still unusable.