{"id":6825,"date":"2022-06-30T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2022-07-03T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:02:20","slug":"macmillan-publisherss-systems-were-forced-offline-by-a-possible-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/macmillan-publisherss-systems-were-forced-offline-by-a-possible-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Macmillan Publishers\u2019s systems were forced offline by a possible ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6825\" class=\"elementor elementor-6825\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b12ad4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b12ad4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4e326da\" data-id=\"4e326da\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32401c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32401c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On Monday 25<sup>th<\/sup> of June, the book publisher, Macmillan disclosed they had experienced a cyber-attack which has been believed to be a ransomware attack by experts as the publisher had initially stated that a portion of the company\u2019s files had been encrypted and that they had taken protection measures by taking their systems offline to prevent further compromise.<\/p><p>Employees of Macmillan\u2019s further confirmed on social media, that the incident had heavily disrupted the US side of the company which had resulted in the company being forced to close\u00a0its New York head office as well as staff being unable to access emails or files, and customers are unable to order at the time of the incident.<\/p><p>No ransomware group has claimed the attack yet and Macmillan hasn\u2019t confirmed any further information but experts do believe the evidence points to a ransomware attack.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 25th of June, the book publisher, Macmillan disclosed they had experienced a cyber-attack which has been believed to be a ransomware attack by experts as the publisher had initially stated that a portion of the company\u2019s files had been encrypted and that they had taken protection measures by taking their systems offline to prevent further compromise. Employees of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,2,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-latest_vulnerabilities","category-read_article","category-ce_news","category-industry_sector","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture1-2.jpg?fit=1375%2C917&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6833,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions\/6833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}