Morley, a business services company revealed this week , it had been the target of a ransomware assault which could have exposed the personal information of over 500,000 people. The incident was found in August 2021 when it observed certain files had become unavailable owing to a ransomware attack.
Morley Companies, Inc., based in Saginaw, Michigan, provides business operations to Fortune 500 and Global 100 companies, such as session management, back-office procedures, contact centers, and trade show showcases and displays.
According to an investigation, for all individuals affected, Morley will cover the expenses of 2 years of IDX identity protection. Those who are affected will be alerted and given instructions on how to join IDX's program. The intruders may have had access to user and staff data, including confidential and sensitive health information. To be precise, the hack exposed the personal information of 521,046 people in total. The company did not explain why it took about 6 months after discovering the breach to begin alerting victims in its letters to victims.
Morley's security incident notification noted, "As a result, Morley realized the data may have been stolen from its digital environment." "Morley then started collecting personal information needed to notify possibly affected persons, which he finished in early 2022."
In order to determine why the files weren't accessible anymore, Morley said it had to engage a cybersecurity specialist. When the root of the incident was uncovered, which was revealed to have been a ransomware epidemic, the company engaged the assistance of local experts to analyze the information and identify all those who had been impacted.
Although this looks to be optimistic, the cyber-intelligence platform claims to have only recently uncovered Morley's data on the dark web. This is often a caution, the data will be used in future attacks by other threat actors, such as specific phishing.
