A group of ransomware called Hunters International has published some of the data that claims to have stolen Tata Technologies, just over a month after the Indian company confirmed a ransomware attack That resulted in the suspension of some services.
The leaked data, published on the dark website of the gang, which Techcrunch has seen, include personal data on some current and previous employees of Tata Technologies, as well as confidential information, including purchase orders and the company’s contracts with customers in India and the United States.
The ransomware gang says that the data set includes more than 730,000 documents, including Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDF files, accumulatively totaling approximately 1.4 terabytes of size.
At the end of January, Tata Technologies informed Indian values of a ransomware attack that affected “some of the company’s IT assets. At that time, Tata said their customer services “remained completely functional and not affected at all times.”
It is not clear if the data loaded by Hunters International Ransomware Group are related to the ransomware attack that Tata Technologies disclosed earlier this year. When Techcrunch arrived several times, Tata’s representatives have not yet provided comments.
Founded in 1989 as an automotive unit of Tata Motors, Tata Technologies separated as a separate company in 1994 and has been operating as a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group since then.
Tata Technologies provides engineering services for research and development and development services to manufacturers of automotive, aerospace and engineering companies in 27 countries. The company has 20 delivery centers and more than 12,500 employees, According to your website.
Surfacing in late 2023Hunters International is relatively new Ransomware Group as a servicethat rents their infrastructure to the affiliated computer pirates who carry out ransomware attacks, and Hunters International takes a cut in the income of rescue payments.
Hunters International also seems to have some links with the HIVE ransomware gang, which largely application agencies of the law disrupted In 2023. The hive gang leaked some of the stolen data For another company of the Tata Group, Tata Power, in 2022.