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Kawasaki Ransomware Attack: 500 GB Alleged Data Leaked, RansomHub Claims

Kawasaki Ransomware Attack: 500 GB Alleged Data Leaked, RansomHub Claims

In a recent ransomware attack that hit Kawasaki Motors Europe (KME), the company has confirmed that it suffered the breach causing major service disruptions as threat actors threatened to leak the data. 

“At the start of September, Kawasaki Motors Europe (KME) was the subject of a cyberattack which, although not successful, resulted in the company’s servers being temporarily isolated until a strategic recovery plan was initiated later on the same day,” KME said in a statement.

RansomHub Behind Leak

RansomHub, an infamous Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has leaked 478GB of data which the group claims belongs to the KME website,  after the attack. Important business documents were exposed- dealership details, internal communications, banking records, and financial info.

Threat actors posted the exposed data on their extortion site on the dark net, suggesting that KME didn’t agree to pay the ransom demanded by RanHub.

RansomHub has become popular after its creation in February 2024, it is now one of the most efficient RaaS groups, it was responsible for 75 ransom attacks in Q2 of 2024. RansomHub’s victims include high-level targets like Planned Parenthood and This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents

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Kawasaki Ransomware Attack: 500 GB Alleged Data Leaked, RansomHub Claims