Ferrari Announces It Was Cyber ​​Attacked

With the digitalization of the whole world, we were seeing news of cyber attacks in many different sectors. The automotive industry is one of them. For example, in recent months, Toyota, one of the world’s largest automakers, faced an attack that affected thousands of customers.

Now, a similar news has come from another automobile giant. Italy-based, one of the first companies that come to mind when it comes to luxury sports vehicles. Ferrariannounced a cyber attack.

Customers’ sensitive information was accessed

Ferrari confirmed the attack in an email sent to customers. In the statement, it was stated that sensitive customer data was breached. attackers, customers accessing their names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers transferred. The automobile giant did not share information about how many customers were affected by this attack.

The company said it contacted a threat actor after the incident, and that person demanding ransom expressed. The amount of the ransom is unknown. not paid Saying that, Ferrari stated that they decided that the best move to do is to inform the customers instead.

In the statement, “As soon as we received the ransom demand, we collaborated with a leading third-party cybersecurity firm to launch an investigation. We also informed the relevant authorities.” expressions were used. Based on the investigation so far, Ferrari has no payment information is not stolen He also underlined that there was no impact on the company’s operations.

It is not known whether the incident had anything to do with the attack on Ferrari in October, which gave access to some confidential documents. This attack, in which 7GB of data was stolen, was organized by a group called “RansomEXX”.