Compal, the world’s second-largest white-label laptop manufacturer, has been hit by the file-scrambling DoppelPaymer ransomware gang – and the hackers want $17m in cryptocurrency before they'll hand over the decryption key.
The Taiwanese factory giant, which builds systems for Apple, Lenovo, Dell, and HP, finally admitted malware infected its computers and encrypted its documents after first insisting it had suffered no more than an IT "abnormality" and that its staff had beaten off a cyber-attack.
That narrative was questioned when ransom notes to Compal asking for 1,100 Bitcoins, costing $16.7m, were leaked to Taiwanese media outlets. The intrusion was discovered on Sunday morning, and has impacted over a quarter of the company’s computers, it's reported. Compal staff say they arrived at work on Monday ..
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