Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-06-19 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nayana
Affected country: Korea (the Republic of)
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A South Korean Web-hosting service provider, Nayana, agrees to pay $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites via the Erebus ransomware.