Data center and colocation services provider Equinix this week revealed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack.
Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Equinix operates over 200 data centers across 25 countries around the world.
The incident, which the data center giant disclosed earlier this week, has only impacted some of the company’s internal systems.
According to Equinix, it was able to quickly address the security incident and its teams are currently investigating the attack. Law enforcement was alerted as well.
“Our data centers and our service offerings, including managed services, remain fully operational, and the incident has not affected our ability to support our customers,” the company said.
Furthermore, Equinix points out that most of its customers “operate their own equipment within Equinix data centers,” meaning that the attack did not affect their operations. Furthermore, data on customer equipment at Equinix was not impacted either, the data center giant claims.
“The security of the data in our systems is always a top priority and we intend to take all necessary actions, as appropriate, based on the results of our investigation,” the company continues.
Equinix did not provide information on how the attackers were able to breach its systems, nor on the type of ransomware used, but BleepingComputer claims that the NetWalker ransomware was used.
The attackers apparently demanded a $4.5 million (455 bitcoin) ransom from Equinix, claiming they were able to download sensitive data from the company’s servers and threatening they would make the data public unless the ransom is paid.
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