The incident is apparently the third time the company has suffered a data loss as a result of a cyber-attack.
A 40GB file of stolen data from Schneider Electric was leaked on the dark web after it refused to pay a ransom.
According to Cybernews, the Hellcat ransomware group leaked the data after Schneider Electric refused to pay $125,000 worth of baguettes as a ransom.
After infiltrating Atlassian’s Jira system in early November, Hellcat was able to exfiltrate the data trove, which is believed to include more than 400,000 rows of user details along with corporate project, issue, and plugin information.
Schneider Electric, which previously confirmed the Hellcat attack, has yet to comment on the data leak.
The company had 1.5 TB of data breached by the Cactus ransomware operation in February, and had systems impacted by the widespread MOVEit hack by the Clop ransomware gang last year.
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