Car retail giant hit by major cyber attack
Nottingham-headquartered car retailer Pendragon has been held to ransom for around £53m after a “sophisticated” hacking group targeted its IT systems.
The firm issued a series of security updates on Friday (21 October) revealing it was “currently responding to an IT security incident” which had been reported to the National Cyber Security Centre and the police.
Pendragon told The Times its IT servers had been hacked by “a sophisticated group known as LockBit 3.0” which had managed to steal around 5% of its database.... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
