The website alleged that the Dairy Farm’s network was hacked and the spokesperson’s card server was affected, causing IKEA to cease operations

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Written by: Lu Ningmin

2021-01-27 21:51

The last update date: 2021-01-27 21:51

A foreign information technology website today (27th) quoted a report that the hacker organization REvil ransomware ransomware to invade the milk company network on the 14th of this month.

Dairy Farm spokesperson responded to the incident, saying that last Thursday (21st) there was a problem with the business server and the affected server was immediately taken offline and isolated from other servers. Among the affected 2% servers, including the day IKEA, which announced the suspension of all branches due to technical failure.

IKEA said on Thursday that it would suspend business due to a technical failure.

(Information Picture/Photo by Huang Weimin)

The foreign information technology website Bleeping Computer quoted a report today as saying that the hacker organization REvil ransomware ransomware invaded the dairy company's network on the 14th of this month, claiming that it had controlled the company's email and launched a "phishing" attack.

A Dairy Farm spokesperson admitted that the company's email was disrupted for a while, but no blackmail message was received.

The spokesperson pointed out that the company found a problem with the business server last Thursday. The affected server accounted for less than 2% of the total. The affected server was immediately processed offline and isolated from other servers that day.

As the affected 2% of the servers include the IKEA system, especially the cashier service will be affected, the Dairy Company decided to suspend all IKEA stores in Hong Kong for one day, and the online shopping service was also suspended, and stores and online shopping The service has resumed normal business last Friday.

The Tsuen Wan store resumed business last Friday.

(Information Picture/Photo by Mo Jiawen)

However, there was an electronic notice at that time that it was impossible to order services.

(Information Picture/Photo by Mo Jiawen)

The spokesperson pointed out that in order to further strengthen the network defense capabilities, independent network experts have been commissioned to conduct a comprehensive and careful investigation of its system, and additional network security measures have been set up and the monitoring system has been strengthened.

Dairy Farm stated that the incident also had an impact on e-mail, but it was relatively minor. The risk has now been eliminated. It emphasizes that all customer information is stored in a completely independent system. There is no evidence that customer information was inappropriately viewed or used, except for some All shops are operating normally except for those shops that have to be closed in accordance with local restrictions due to the impact of the epidemic.

Dairy Farm emphasizes that it attaches great importance to network security and will continue to maintain a cautious attitude in the future and regularly strengthen system and network defenses.

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