Financial services aggregate 3P Corporation has denied its data was breached in an April attack; however, hackers have published more than 200 gigabytes of internal documents and customer data online.
The Space Bears ransomware gang listed Victorian financial services firm 3P Corporation as a victim on its darknet leak site in early April, and has since published data that it claims to have stolen in the course of the attack. The hackers made the claim in an April 10 post, listing some information about its alleged victim alongside claims relating to the nature of the stolen data, which includes a database, financial documents, and “personal information of employees and clients”.
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Source: Independent Financial Adviser
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