Ransomware gang claims a hack on Leekes - Welsh furniture chain
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The NoEscape ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack targeting a chain of furniture stores Leekes, a company based in Glamorgan, Wales. According to the group's victim blog post, they assert that they successfully exfiltrated 130GB of data from Leekes.
The specifics of the ransom demands or whether Leekes is cooperating with the hackers remain unclear. The gang issued a warning of an upcoming "update" but did not disclose further details regarding their intentions.
The post shared in various online communities includes screengrabs indicating the acronym "DDoS" in the bottom left corner. This suggests that a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) might have been utilized as one of the methods to overwhelm Leekes' website with an excessive volume of requests, potentially contributing to the cyber incident.
Leekes has not commented on the hackers announcement, and no details are available whether the attack is real, how it was executed and what is the impact.
