Sinclair Broadcast Group hit by ransomware attack
Source: The Hill
Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the nations largest television station operators, announced Monday that it had been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that resulted in data theft and network disruption.
The attack, first discovered by the company on Saturday, compromised some servers and workstations at Sinclair, with operational networks disrupted and data taken by the attackers. Sinclair said in a statement on Monday that it was still working to determine what data had been taken.
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Sinclair is a massive broadcast group that owns, operates or provides services to 185 television stations, along with owning and operating 21 regional sports network brands.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/577203-sinclair-broadcast-group-hit-by-ransomware-attack
Latest Ransomware attack victim... huge broadcast company, I guess Russia doesn't seem to be scared of continuing these attacks on US companies even ones that support Trump and the KGOP
ananda
(28,866 posts)...
pandr32
(11,588 posts)COL Mustard
(5,906 posts)I don't think it's just the Russians.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)... "Putin". They are ordinary criminals, not necessarily state actors.
rpannier
(24,330 posts)Organized crime have many of the same hacking abilities
A group of tech-types could have been behind this
Though I doubt it was the 300-lb guy sitting on his bed like il douche claimed years ago
Archae
(46,337 posts)And they don't give a shit who they hurt, even their own "allies."
ZonkerHarris
(24,229 posts)RFCalifornia
(440 posts)Sucks to be them hahahahahaha
lark
(23,111 posts)Don't know why Russia would target some group so sympathetic to it so wonder who's behind this one?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)They deserve it.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)They use the same newscasts so we lose out on news choices and stories. How is this better?
Auggie
(31,174 posts)pecosbob
(7,541 posts)Sinclair is a massive broadcast right-wing propaganda group that spreads disinformation through it's 185 television stations, along with owning and operating 21 regional sports network brands.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)they'll soon be answering to Putin. He'll confiscate all the money, and if they're lucky enough not to be executed, they'll never attack one of his pawns again.
Mysterian
(4,588 posts)Fuck Sinclair fascists!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)...of one on a company I don't despise.