The most reputed and giant IT company suffered from the ransomware attacks last April which caused service disruptions to the clients.
People Know about the Cognizant that it is one of the big IT firms which has more than 3 Lakh employees and it provides the IT services which include digital, technology, consulting, and operations services.
The Attack affect
The day April 17 is not good for the company, the first the internal system is hit by the Maze ransomware. The company has informed the clients about the attack and provided them with the indicator of compromise (IOCs) and the other technical information of defensive nature.
The company has initially learned that the attackers have staged and likely exfiltered a limited amount of data from the cognizant’s systems.
The company has further investigation that was found that the majority of the personal information was also exposed.
When we talk about the personal information that may impact the information related to our corporate credit cards.
The company has also informed all the associates who gave an active corporate credit card and they can offer credit and identity theft monitoring services.
The company has built a team and mentioned that they continue to monitor the account for any fraudulent activities and we have been informed that they have not seen an increase in fraud for our accounts.
Ransomware attacks have become an easy and malicious way of robbing individuals and companies can cost billions of dollars not to mention the privacy and safety implications.
The company also published the breach notification letter states that the Maze ransomware is active in the Cognizant network between April 9 and 11.
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