Hackers attacked Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport and the Port of Seattle final month, stealing roughly three terabytes of knowledge whereas snarling ticketing and baggage techniques. Airport officers acknowledged right this moment that it gained’t pay the 100-bitcoin (or $5.7 million) ransom to forestall the stolen info from being posted publicly. It’s not clear what was taken, however the hackers declare to have inner logins together with private employees and buyer knowledge.
Officers confirmed that the Russian ransomware gang Rhysida was behind the cyberattack and ransom calls for, in accordance with the Seattle Occasions. The group is illicitly auctioning off the info, together with a passport scan of a Port worker as a pattern. Sea-Tac Airport managing director Lance Lyttle instructed the U.S. Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Wednesday:
“We’re at the moment reviewing the recordsdata printed on the leak web site, in addition to others we imagine have been copied. With reference to paying the ransom, that was opposite to our values and we don’t assume it’s the most effective use of public funds.”
Rhysida attacked the British Library final yr, demanding round $800,000 in Bitcoin after stealing worker passport scans, work contracts and emails. The group focused Columbus, Ohio final month, infiltrating town’s laptop techniques, however didn’t demand a ransom after that cyberattack. It’s not clear why the group took goal on the airport in Washington State. Throughout the assault, small airways utilizing Sea-Tac’s common-use gates resorted to handwritten boarding passes and baggage locations, creating huge delays.