Players' managers looking to lift salaries by a couple of million pounds or so better check their email read receipts: a full week after Manchester United was hit by hackers, many of its systems remain offline, with at least one report claiming the club is being shaken down for ransom.
The malware hit the New York Stock Exchange-listed football business last Friday and it confirmed the attack that night.
Today, scare-mongering UK national paper the Daily Mail claimed this was because the club was actually being held to ransom. "United's network has been infected by ransomware – a computer virus – and they now face the option of having to pay up or risk seeing highly sensitive information about the club and its stars leaked into the public domain," said the newspaper in this morning's report.
Manchester United working with infosec experts to 'minimize ongoing IT disruption' caused by 'cyber attack'
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In a statement, the football club told The Register: "Following the recent cyber attack on the club, our IT team and external experts secured our networks and have conducted forensic investigations. This attack was by nature disruptive, but we are not currently aware of any fan data being compromised."
The Register asked whether player or employee data had been compromised and a club spokesman declined to comment.
The Man U statement continued: "Critical systems required for matches to take place at Old Trafford remained secure and games have gone ..
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