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Ring Data Breach: What you Need to Know About the Home Security Company Attack

With innovative doorbells and security cameras making a huge breakthrough for home security across the world, Ring now stores a great amount of data. Although the company has recently been facing ransomware gang threats to expose the data online. 

About Ring LLC 

Ring LLC is a home security and smart home company owned by Tech-giant Amazon. The firm creates home security systems with exterior cameras, such as the Ring Video Doorbell smart doorbell, and runs the Neighbors app, which allows users to share video footage with each other online in a communal setting. 

Ring Data Breach 

According to a report by Motherboard, the ALPHV ransomware gang has claimed to have acquired access to Amazon-owned Ring’s systems and its data. Despite the fact that there is no proof of a system breach, Ring did indicate as much in a statement to the news organization. But, it is well known to them that a ransomware assault has affected one of its third-party providers. 

In a response to Ring, ALPHV shares a post on Twitter saying “There’s always an option to let us leak your data”. The ransomware group has not yet made any of the data it is said to have stolen from the business available. But, there is still cause for alarm when Motherboard discovered a Ring listing on ALPHV’s data dump website. 

Ransomware groups like ALPHV have evolved into using data dump sites to entice

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