Exclusive US corporate travel management firm Carlson Wagonlit Travel has suffered an intrusion and it is believed the company paid a $4.5m ransom to get its data back.
The attack hit the company a week ago, causing a shutdown of all systems while the infection was contained and dealt with.
It appears that Carlson Wagonlit may have paid a ransom demand in excess of 400 Bitcoins, or $4.5m at current rates – a sum its $1.5bn annual revenues may have been able to absorb without too much trouble. A Twitter user posted the first indication of a breach, as well as the ransom, on Thursday:
Twitter user @JAMESWT_MHT posted about Ragnar Locker hitting CWT. Click to enlarge
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