Hyundai Motor Europe was breached by the Black Basta ransomware. The threat actors claim to have stolen three terabytes of data from the company.
In January, the car maker experienced the IT issues. The outage was likely caused by the ransomware attack, but the company did not disclose it. Later, Hyundai confirmed that they suffered a cyberattack without providing details about the incident.
The carmaker launched an investigation into the incident with the help of external cybersecurity and legal experts and also notified relevant local authorities.
Hyundai Motor Europe only reported the discovery of unauthorized access to a limited part of its network.
Black Basta ransomware gang claims the hack of the car maker Hyundai Motor Europe and the theft of three terabytes of their data.
The threat actors revealed the evidence of the data breach. It seems that the gang stole data from various departments, including legal, sales, and human resources.
Threat actors had access to the email addresses, physical addresses, telephone numbers, and vehicle chassis numbers of the impacted individuals.
The data breach letter sent to the impacted individuals informs them that an unauthorized third party had access to the database of customers. Hyundai Italy has notified the privacy watchdog and hired external cybersecurity experts to determine the scope of the incident.
