When a country's national airline, and its national broadcaster, is attacked in this way, it's not unreasonable to suspect a state-backed hack. But is there evidence for that?
Typically, when a company suffers a
, the blame tends to fall on their own security systems, or the training they give employees about how to avoid the"phishing" tricks used by hackers.- a breach that occurred in a third party's software they relied on, perhaps without them even knowing.A piece of file transfer software called MOVEit was being used by Zellis, their payroll provider.
A weak link in its code -- a"zero day vulnerability" - allowed hackers to gain access to their servers and the personal and financial data on tens of thousands of employees. When a country's national airline, and its national broadcaster is attacked in this way, it's not unreasonable to suspect a state-backed hack.
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