Despite being locked out of its data in January’s cyberattack, Qulliq Energy Corp. did not use the word, ransomware to describe what took place.
A cyberattack that targeted QEC on January 15 was discovered, and QEC announced that it had fallen victim to it the previous month. QEC’s information technology, such as the email system, billing, and payroll database, was impacted by the large cyberattack. However, no operating technology, such as the power plants’ infrastructure, was affected.
QEC’s vice president of operations and engineering Bill Nippard explained that there are several levels of cyberattacks, and the level of these attacks can vary greatly. Sometimes, they steal data from you, and other times, they simply lock your data out of your computer and encrypt it.
However, as far as the data is concerned, the team at QEC does not believe there has been any adverse impact on their data from this incident. This is still under investigation as they mentioned.
During an interview with Nippard about the nature of the attack, he expressed that the investigation was still at an early stage. He was not sure if it was the former or the latter when QEC was cut off from its system and its data was encrypted.
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