Data against bitcoins. On Wednesday, the northern construction group Rabot Dutilleul was the victim of a computer attack. In a statement, released Thursday, the company acknowledged that it was a ransomware-type virus without specifying the amount of the ransom demanded by the hackers.
"A ransomware-type viral attack was detected by Rabot Dutilleul's computer network [...] on part of the infrastructure hosted in France", explains the BTP group, ensuring that "the IT department immediately took measures to protection designed to stop the spread of ransomware. "
Eight million euros in bitcoins
Two days after the launch of the attack, Rabot Dutilleul's technical teams supported by "external experts" are still trying to "precisely determine the impact of this incident on the activity, as well as the nature of the information that could have been obtained. made available to third parties. "
According to our colleagues from La Voix du Nord , the authors of the cyberattack demanded the payment of a ransom of eight million euros in the form of bitcoins to prevent confidential data from being disseminated on the Internet.
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