Continental
The hackers were able to look around the Dax group’s network undisturbed for a month.
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A little carelessness has plunged Continental into chaos. Because a single employee downloaded an unauthorized browser from the Internet, cybercriminals were able to “exfiltrate” 40 terabytes of data from the auto parts supplier. That’s what the group’s IT security chief, Dirk Ahrens, said in an internal webcast that the Handelsblatt was able to view.
In the video from the “Ask the Expert” series, which Conti employees have been able to view on the intranet since Monday, Ahrens and Steffen Brinkmann, who are responsible for human resources at the automotive supplier in Germany, explain how the hackers gained access to the company’s servers , which data could have been lost and how the group now wants to proceed.
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