The Volkswagen Group has issued a statement after a known ransomware group claimed to have stolen valuable information from the carmaker’s systems.
“This incident is known,” a Volkswagen spokesperson told SecurityWeek, adding, “The IT infrastructure of the Volkswagen Group is not affected. We are continuing to monitor the situation closely.”
The Volkswagen Group owns car brands such as Volkswagen, Skoda, Seat, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Cupra, and Bentley.
The company has not shared any other information on the cyberattack. Its brief statement comes after the ransomware gang 8Base named the carmaker on its leak website.
8Base claims to have stolen invoices, receipts, accounting documents, personal data, certificates, employment contracts, personnel files, and “a huge amount of confidential information”.
The time is up for Volkswagen on the ransomware group’s website, but the hackers do not appear to have made any of the stolen information public.
The 8Base ransomware group has been around since early 2023, to date naming more than 400 victims on its website.
Once they gain access to the targeted organization’s systems, the cybercriminals steal sensitive data that can be used to pressure the victim to pay a ransom, and then deploy file-encrypting malware.
This is not the first time the carmaker has been targeted by hackers. Earlier this year it was reported that Chinese state-sponsored threat actors looking to obtain valuable data had access to the company’s systems between 2011 and 2014.
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