Schneider Electric Launches Probe After Hackers Claim Theft of User Data

Hackers claim to have stolen sensitive information, including user data, after breaching Schneider Electric’s Jira system. 

French industrial giant Schneider Electric has launched an investigation after hackers claimed to have stolen sensitive data from one of the company’s systems.

The hackers are calling themselves Hellcat and they claim to have breached Schneider’s Jira issue tracking system.

“This breach has compromised critical data, including projects, issues, and plugins, along with over 400,000 rows of user data, totaling more than 40GB compressed data,” the hackers wrote on their Tor-based leak website.

The cybercriminals are demanding a $125,000 ransom, but noted that the ransom amount will drop by 50% if the vendor confirms the breach. They are threatening to make the stolen data public if their demands are not met.

One of the hackers has published a couple of screenshots on X to demonstrate access to the Jira ...