{"id":33028,"date":"2020-12-08T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33028"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:43:53","slug":"hackers-attacked-a-foxconn-factory-and-demanded-1804-btc-as-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hackers-attacked-a-foxconn-factory-and-demanded-1804-btc-as-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers attacked a Foxconn factory and demanded 1,804 BTC as ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Foxconn&#8217;s factories, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, was hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware. Hackers demanded 1,804 BTC (about $33.8 million at the time of writing), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/foxconn-electronics-giant-hit-by-ransomware-34-million-ransom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bleeping Computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The attackers targeted the facility in Mexico on November 29. They stole about 100 GB of files, encrypted the North American segment (1,200\u20131,400 servers), and deleted 20\u201330 TB of backups.<\/p>\n<p>Some documents were published by the hackers. According to some reports, among the stolen data there were no employees&#8217; personal data or financial reports.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, the DoppelPaymer group attacked the Taiwanese laptop maker Compal Electronics. The attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-attacked-laptop-maker-compal-and-demanded-1100-btc-in-ransom\">demanded 1,100 BTC for decryption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Delaware County authorities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/delaware-county-authorities-paid-hackers-500000-in-bitcoin\">paid the ransomware operators<\/a> $500,000 in bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Foxconn&#8217;s factories, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, was hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware. Hackers demanded 1,804 BTC (about $33.8 million at the time of writing), according to Bleeping Computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2051],"class_list":["post-33028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-foxconn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"32","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33030,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028\/revisions\/33030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}