According to a report by the German media, Volkswagen has experienced an unexpected halt to its global operations following the alleged occurrence of a major cybersecurity incident that has rippled through one of the world’s largest automotive networks.
According to German media reports, many of the company’s IT and production infrastructure are paralysed across multiple international locations as a result of the cyber-attack.
There was a disruption at Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg facility referred to by a Volkswagen spokesman as an “IT disruption of network components,” according to Handelsblatt, starting around 12:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday.
While it is still unclear whether the full scope of the outage was attained, the outage has caused widespread concern both within and outside the company.
There is no doubt that the situation is dire, but ransomware group 8Base has claimed responsibility for the breach, claiming they penetrated Volkswagen Group systems since September 2024, and exfiltrated a wide range of sensitive data and corporate information.
Several invoices, receipts, accounting records, employment contracts, and confidential personnel files were allegedly stolen, as part of the claim of the group.
Despite Volkswagen’s acknowledgement that a security “incident” has been reported, the company has kept silent about providing any further details concer
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