Status of Pendragon’s data unclear after hackers issue revised ultimatum
The group behind a major cyber attack on car retail giant Pendragon gave the company a revised ultimatum to meet its £53m ransom demand last week, Car Dealer Magazine has revealed.
LockBit 3.0 is understood to have given the Nottingham firm until Saturday 29 October – eight days after its initial deadline elapsed – to pay $60m into a Bitcoin wallet or face some 2 million stolen files being leaked onto the dark web.
Late last week, Pendragon told the trade title it had “absolutely not" paid the ransom and said the threat t... 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...
