Marco A. DeFelice reports:
Before the news became public, SuspectFile had tried in vain to contact Phone House Spain already on Friday morning informing them that, in the event of non-payment of the ransom of 6 million dollars (just over 97 bitcoins at the exchange rate of Friday 16 April ed) and that the following day ( Saturday 17 April ed ) Babuk would have made public the news of the data breach on its website.
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Yesterday, after the Babuk ransomware group released some screenshots of the databases hit during the cyber attack, some Spanish online media reported the news.
Read more on SuspectFile, who reportedly reached out to Phone House, but got no response to its excellent questions.