The hacker group is demanding 50 million euros for the data set.
Dusseldorf After the cyber attack on the German automotive supplier Continental, the blackmailers threatened to sell the captured data. Conti supervisory board chairman Wolfgang Reitzle was “a very greedy man,” according to her blog on Darknet. “We are therefore ready to sell 40 terabytes of the company’s private data.” The price: 50 million US dollars.
Continental did not want to comment on this when asked. The Dax group had confirmed information from the Handelsblatt on Monday, according to which cybercriminals accessed significant amounts of the company’s data during an attack in August.
According to company circles, it is about the order of 40 terabytes. One terabyte corresponds to around 6.5 million document pages. It is the first time that such a massive data theft has become known at a Dax group.
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