The hacker group behind a ransomware attack on global solution provider giant Accenture has made a ransom demand for $50 million, according to a cybersecurity firm that reports seeing the demand.
The threat actor is demanding the $50 million in exchange for more than 6 TB of data, according to a tweet from Cyble, a dark web and cybercrime monitoring firm.
On Thursday, Accenture said it did not have any updates to its statement—and referred CRN to a statement provided on Wednesday saying that it “contained the matter and isolated the affected servers” and that “there was no impact on Accenture’s operations, or on our clients’ systems.”
In the attack disclosed on Wednesday, the hacker group reportedly used LockBit ransomware to target Accenture, which is No. 1 on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 for 2021. LockBit, according to New Zealand-based cybersecurity company Emsisoft, is a strain of ransomware that prevents users from accessing infected systems until a ransom payment is made.
The incident follows the July attack on Kaseya by ransomware operator REvil, which included a $70 million demand to decrypt victim files. Kaseya later said it obtained a REvil ransomware decryptor, but did not pay the ransom.
