Spread across 75 countries, these include Airbus, Porsche, Toshiba and Volkswagen. So when Citycomp published a statement that it had "successfully fended off a hacker attack," you might think that was good news. The statement goes on to reveal that Citycomp does "not yield to blackmail" and so the "publication of customer data could not be prevented." I must also disagree with the Citycomp statement that since it doesn't comply with blackmail demands "the publication of customer data could not be prevented." The expert opinionWarren Poschman, a senior solutions architect at comforte AG, told me that the data breach at Citycomp "underscores that data theft for ransom isn't dead and won't be anytime soon."

Source: Forbes May 04, 2019 09:32 UTC