ADATA: RansomHouse Cyberattack Result of a Leak of 2021 Data

Taiwanese chip manufacturer ADATA denies all allegations of a RansomHouse cyberattack. This is following the announcement that threat actors began posting stolen data on a leak website belonging to the data leak group. 
Earlier this week, the RansomHouse gang added ADATA files to their data leak site. In this leak, they claimed they had taken 1TB worth of documents during a cyberattack in the year 2022. To demonstrate how much information the gang had staked, the threat actors posted samples of supposed stolen files that appear to be from ADATA. 
“Based on several technical methods of checking, we believe what Ransomhouse alleged was fake data and that it was stolen by Ragnar Locker in 2021, which is all confirmed by ADATA’s spokesperson,” said BleepingComputer in an email. 
ADATA implemented effective methods to provide strong security following the Ragnar Locker attack in 2021. Since then, no attack on ADATA has been successful, and no confidential information about ADATA was leaked. 
It can be stated that based on the comparison of the timestamps for the data shared by RansomHouse and the data that Ragnar Locker leaked in June 2021, both sets of stolen data had similar timestamps, which meant that both files were no older than May 2021 when compared to the timestamps fo

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