Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-09-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: Artech Information Systems
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: REvil
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Artech Information Systems, one of the largest US IT staffing companies, has disclosed a data breach caused by a ransomware attack that affected some of its systems during early January 2020.