Payment solutions giant Edenred today revealed in a statement that a malware incident affected an undisclosed number of its computing systems leading to an investigation for establishing the extent of the infection.
Edenred operates an intermediation platform spanning across 46 countries and connecting of 50 million employees and 2 million partner merchants via 830,000 corporate clients.
In 2018, the French group managed 2.5 billion specific purpose payment transactions representing roughly €30 billion in business volume, transactions carried out via cards, mobile apps, and online platforms.
Authorities notified of the incident
"Upon detection of the attack, Edenred immediately implemented countermeasures to prevent further infection in accordance with Edenred’s established cybersecurity policies," the company said in a statement published today.
"Edenred is committed to utilizing all available means to protect its operations and customers’ information," the prepaid corporate services provider added.
The company also says [PDF] that it is in the process of contacting and notifying all relevant government regulators and authorities of the malware incident.
Due to a possibly unrelated incident, customers have also been complaining on Twitter [1, 2, 3, 4] about experiencing issues while trying to use Edenred's online services.
"Dear customer, at this moment we are suffering intermittency in our internet portals. Our teams are working to resu ..
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