Resource: Hogan Lovells Asia Pacific Data Protection and Cyber Security Guide 2021 (registration required to access it)
Category: Non-U.S.
Fr: City of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue victim of ransomware; won’t pay €500,000 demand
Daniel Morin reports (translation): This is the first time that the city of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse) has been the victim of such a computer attack , undoubtedly from abroad. It was 4:42 am exactly this Friday morning when hackers broke into the community’s servers remotely. All files have been encrypted and have been unusable since. “…
CZ: Olomouc paralyzed by a cyberattack. All municipal services remain unavailable.
From translations of available sources, it appears that the municipality of was paralyzed by a cyber attack on April 7. The municipality estimated that it would take about 14 days to fully restore services. They do not indicate what kind of ransomware was involved or what demands were made. Read more on Olomouc.cz. Last April,…
Dutch transport company Bakker Logistiek impacted by ransomware attack
Omroep Flevoland reports: (Translation): Transport company Bakker Logistiek from Zeewolde was hacked last weekend, as a result of which the company can drive fewer loads than normal. The automation system in the warehouse section is not working, but according to director Toon Verhoeven does not lead to problems. “We can deliver less, but it does not lead…
Ch: General trade school (Allgemeine Gewerbeschule) hit by Ryuk ransomware
The following is a translation of a press release from the Canton of Basel-Stadt Education Department that appears at https://www.bs.ch/nm/2021-allgemeine-gewerbeschule-ags-wird-ziel-eines-professionellen-hackerangriffs-ed.html: All of the school’s servers are currently unavailable, so no data can be accessed. To ensure that school starts on Monday, a temporary WLAN network was activated, the data center isolated and the host systems shut…
AT: Nah&Frisch Wieser Türnitz hit by ransomware attack
Gila Wohlmann reports (translation): “Due to cyberattacks and blackmail, we will probably be closed from Wednesday, April 7th.” This note has been hanging on Georg Wieser’s Türnitzer “Nah & Frisch” market for the past few days. “We just wanted to inform our customers, the EDP is now taking care of rectification,” he confirms the incident…