- The company is currently investigating the attack
- The hacker claims to have stolen 40 GB of compressed data
- Schneider Electric’s Jira system was hacked
Schneider Electric has confirmed that it is his second problem cyber attack and data breaches in recent months.
Earlier this week, a threat actor, aka Greppy, added a new post on X, claiming to have breached the company:
“Hey Schneider Electric, how was your week? Did someone accidentally steal your data and you noticed it, shut down and restarted the services without finding them? Now you’re closed again, but it looks like the criminals have collected juicier data,” the tweet reads.
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This early BleepingComputer to contact the company with further questions.
“Schneider Electric is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to one of our internal project execution tracking platforms, which is hosted in an isolated environment,” the company told the publication. “Our Global Incident Response team was immediately mobilized to respond to the incident. Schneider Electric products and services remain unaffected.”
Greppy also posted the loot on a dark website, saying they had access to the company’s Atlassian Jira system.
“This breach compromised critical data including projects, issues, and plugins, along with 400,000 rows of user data, totaling more than 40 GB of compressed data,” the ad reads. “To secure the deletion of this data and prevent its public release, we require a payment of $125,000 USD in baguettes,” the hackers said.
It is clear that the attacker does not want hundreds of thousands of baguettes – it is a joke, since Schneider Electric is a French company. Instead, they simply want the victim company to acknowledge the breach within 48 hours. Since the company has done just that, let’s see if Greppy keeps to its word.
Schneider Electric is a multinational company specializing in energy management and automation solutions. It builds technologies and services that increase efficiency and sustainability in various sectors, including buildings, data centers and infrastructure.
Via BleepingComputer