PwC Australia has joined a growing list of companies caught up in the latest cyberattack carried out by a notorious Russian hacker group.
Cybercrime group CL0P, which is well known for its ransomware demands, has accessed sensitive data from dozens of well-known companies and organisations after exploiting a flaw in MOVEit, a third-party software platform used by organisations to transfer sensitive data between different parties.
“We are aware that MOVEit, a third-party transfer platform, has experienced a cybersecurity incident which has impacted hundreds of organisations including PwC. PwC uses the software with a limited number of client engagements,” a PwC Australia spokesman said. “We have reached out to the small number of clients whose files were impacted to discuss the incident,” the PwC spokesman said.Australia’s Crown Resorts was embroiled in a similar cyber incident in March, when another third-party file transfer service, GoAnywhere, was hacked.In that case, a ransomware group contacted Crown and claimed they had illegally obtained a limited number of Crown files.
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