Misleading headline.

From a better article:

with attackers demanding a $150,000 ransom in “baguettes,” an obtuse reference to the company’s headquarters being located in France. In reality, the attackers are looking for payment in Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

https://cyberscoop.com/schneider-electric-energy-ransomware-hellcat/

However, the hacker(s) indicated, that should Schneider publicly admit to this latest data breach, the ransom would be cut in half. Thus, the ransom demanded would decrease to $62,500 worth of baguettes, we would presume. Even with a 50% deduction, that’s still a lot of dough.

Well, obviously? What else do you demand to go with your cheese?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/11/01/british-cheddar-cheese-theft-arrest/75982560007/

TIL that Schneider Electric is a French company. I always assumed it was American or Swiss.

That's a lot of dough

Accessed through Jira huh, that's pretty epic but this aggression will not stand up! I can imagine the hackers sprinting away with baguettes under the their arm. Such a scrummy thing to do.

While I despise all these hackers these days, I feel like these companies deserve it, for their utterly non-existent data handling protocols.

published November 5, 2024

Well, today’s the 12th. What happened?

But they’d go rock hard stale before you got through 4 of them!