"Thales Denies Getting Hacked as Ransomware Gang Releases Gigabytes of Data"

French aerospace, defense, and security giant Thales claims to have found no evidence of its IT systems getting breached after a well-known ransomware group published gigabytes of data allegedly stolen from the company.  LockBit last week published a 9.5 Gb archive file apparently containing information belonging to Thales.  The malicious hackers previously announced that they would make files public unless Thales paid a ransom.  The leaked files seem to include both technical and corporate documents.  LockBit claims to have obtained highly sensitive information related to the company’s operations and “commercial documents, accounting files, customer files, drawings of clients structures, and software.”  Thales did confirm that a breach had occurred, just not of its own systems.  The company is aware of two likely sources of the theft.  One of them has been confirmed to be the user account of a partner on a dedicated collaboration portal, which resulted in the disclosure of “a limited amount of information.”  Thales stated that, as of now, there is no impact on the Group’s operations.  French publication LeMonde reported that the leaked data is related to Thales contracts and partnerships in Malaysia and Italy.

SecurityWeek reports: "Thales Denies Getting Hacked as Ransomware Gang Releases Gigabytes of Data"