The Yellow Pages Canada company has confirmed that: Information security It was said to have been the victim of a cyber attack.
“As soon as we became aware of the attack, we enlisted the help of external cybersecurity experts to begin a thorough investigation of the issue to ensure we contained the incident and secured our systems,” said Senior Vice President Franco. President and Chief Financial Officer Skinanbro said Information security on mail.
The breach reportedly affected the data of some employees and business customers, though the company did not specifically specify what types of data.
“Based on our investigations to date, we have reason to believe that an unauthorized third party has stolen certain personally identifiable information from our servers containing limited data related to YP’s employee data and business customers. Yes,” said Siannamblo.
“We have notified affected individuals and have informed all appropriate privacy regulators regarding this incident.”
Yellow Pages did not provide further details about the attack. However, a notorious threat group known as Black Basta has claimed responsibility for the ransomware and released some data over the weekend, according to cybersecurity analysts and security researchers. I’m here. Dominic Alvieri
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Siannamblo added that all of the company’s services are back online. Still, it’s unclear how long the information was made public, according to Chris Hauk, consumer privacy advocate for Pixel Privacy.
“Yellow Pages Canada customers should be wary of bad actors trying to get you to finger-finger additional information that can be gleaned through email, text or phone phishing attempts.”
Rebecca Moody, head of data research at Comparitech, echoed Hauk’s point, explaining that ransomware groups tend to give organizations a period of time to pay the ransom before releasing the data.
“This suggests that Yellow Pages Canada only confirmed a ransomware attack as Black Basta claimed and published data on a hacking forum. Unfortunately, this is on the rise. , they tend to disclose these attacks only when the system is down or the data is exposed.”
The attack on Yellow Pages Canada is just the latest in an evolving list of ransomware-related breaches throughout 2023.
