"Hacker Selling Data Allegedly Stolen From Volvo Cars Following Ransomware Attack"
A hacker is now offering to sell data allegedly stolen from Swedish vehicle manufacturer Volvo Cars following a ransomware attack carried out in late December. The data was put up for sale on a public hacker forum on December 31. The hacker claims Volvo Cars was the target of a new ransomware operation called Endurance, which emerged in November 2022, when its operators claimed to have obtained data associated with many US government agencies. Those claims were disputed at the time, with some users pointing out that the leaked sample documents were already public. If confirmed, this would be the second time Volvo Cars has been breached in recent years. In December 2021, the company admitted that hackers had stolen R&D data from its systems but said it had not been hit by ransomware and that there was no impact on the safety or security of customer cars or their personal data. However, a ransomware group did take credit for the attack at the time. The individual offering to sell stolen information now claims the data is “completely separate from the 2021 breach”. Screenshots leaked on December 31 in an effort to prove the hack include internal documents related to telematics on vehicles made for police, internal presentations, project management dashboards, and car part schematics. Some of these screenshots display various dates in 2022, including late December, which suggests that the breach could indeed be new.