According to the company's statement, an unauthorized person obtained access to a server based in South Africa using stolen credentials.
A Brazilian hacking group known as "N4ughtysecTU" has claimed responsibility for the attack and told BleepingComputer that they downloaded 4TB of data during the cyberattack.
Additionally, the hackers told Bleeping Computer they set the ransom demand to $15,000,000 in Bitcoin and threatened to extort TransUnion's customers by demanding an "insurance" payment if a ransom was not paid. ================================================================= There are more than 15,000,000 reasons why organizations should be using Wave VSC 2.0 to protect their data. ESW could make Wave VSC 2.0, and its great attributes more known to the world so events like this aren't continuously happening!! ================================================================= Better security at less than half the cost!!
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