{"id":48187,"date":"2021-08-24T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48187"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:00:45","slug":"nokias-us-subsidiary-sac-wireless-hit-by-conti-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nokias-us-subsidiary-sac-wireless-hit-by-conti-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia&#8217;s US subsidiary SAC Wireless hit by Conti ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAC Wireless, Nokia&#8217;s US subsidiary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21047756-sac-wireless-data-breach-conti-ransomware-bc-notification-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430<\/a> that data had been breached following a Conti ransomware attack.<\/p>\n<p>The breach occurred on June 16. The attackers stole personal information of current and former employees, including names, dates of birth, contact details, passport data, digital signatures, salary information, tax returns \u2014 totaling more than 250 GB.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cConti operators gained access to SAC systems, uploaded files to their cloud storage, and then encrypted the files in SAC systems,\u201d the company said in a notice to an unspecified number of victims.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The attackers threaten to publish the employees&#8217; data publicly if they do not receive a ransom. The amount is not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>SAC Wireless continues to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Conti ransomware operation is allegedly controlled by the Russian cybercriminal group Wizard Spider.<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware victims include Ireland&#8217;s Department of Health (DoH) and Health Service Executive (HSE). The latter was asked to pay a ransom of $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the FBI warned that Conti operators were attempting to breach the networks of more than a dozen American healthcare and emergency services organizations.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Ransomwhere, in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-ransomware-operators-received-more-than-33-million-in-2021\">more than $33 million in cryptocurrency<\/a> was sent to addresses linked to ransomware operators.<\/p>\n<p>To combat hacker attacks, U.S. authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bloomberg-us-to-track-crypto-transactions-to-counter-ransomware-attacks\">plan to track cryptocurrency transactions<\/a> on cybercriminal wallets.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAC Wireless, Nokia&#8217;s US subsidiary, said data had been leaked as a result of a Conti ransomware attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1188,26],"class_list":["post-48187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-data-breach","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48189,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48187\/revisions\/48189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}