‘The Guardian’ Apparently Hit by a Ransomware Attack

UK’s Guardian newspaper has been hit by a severe IT incident, apparently a ransomware attack, on Tuesday. The attack began late at night and has affected parts of the newspaper company’s technology infrastructure.

While online publishing is mostly unaffected and news stories are still being posted to The Guardian website and app, the employees were being instructed to work from home, as per the reports put forth by The Guardian.

It has yet not been made clear as to how the breach occurred, whether any company data was stolen or if any threat actor has demanded a ransom payment from the British daily publication. In any general case of a ransomware attack, ransomware groups end up extracting payment in order to restore the victim’s breached files or selling the victim’s sensitive data, or both.

“As everyone knows, there has been a serious incident which has affected our IT network and systems in the last 24 hours […] We believe this to be a ransomware attack but are continuing to consider all possibilities,” says Guardian Media Group’s chief executive, Anna Bateson, and editor-in-chief Katharine Viner.

“We are continuing to publish globally to our website and apps and although some of our internal systems are affected, we are confident we will be able to publish in print tomorrow. Our technology teams have been working to deal with all aspects of this incident, with the vast majority of our staff able to work from home as w

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