KwikTrip all but says IT outage was caused by a cyberattack

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stations in Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin also operating under the name Kwik Star in Illinois Iowa and South Dakota The company employs over 35000 peopleppSince October 8th Kwik TripKwik Star has been experiencing an IT outage impacting their Kwik Rewards program support systems phones and emailppLast week Kwik Trip released a statement saying their disruption was caused by a network incidentppAs many of you are aware we are currently working through a network incident that has caused a disruption to some of our systems reads a statement on TwitterppBleepingComputer has attempted to clarify whether this network incident was a cyberattack but did not receive replies to our queriesppHowever Kwik Trip released a new statement today hinting they suffered a cyberattack although they havent directly said those wordsppInstead Kwik Trip said it had hired security experts and emphasized that there is no evidence suggesting any data was stolen indicating that it was a cybersecurity incidentppWhile we are still experiencing an outage to the Kwik Rewards Program our retail and customerfacing systems are not impacted reads Kwik Trips new statementppWe are thoroughly investigating the incident now with thirdparty information security experts We will provide further updates and information as appropriate in due course but as of now we do not have any evidence that anyones personal or confidential information has been acquired by an unauthorized partyppWhile Kwik Trip has said that no data was stolen in this incident we typically find out later that data was exfiltrated from the victims systems following incidents affecting similarly sized organizationsppKwik Trip customers and employees have told BleepingComputer that they are frustrated by the companys lack of transparency and are concerned that their data may have been stolen and are at riskppIn light of this it is advised that all Kwik Trip customers and employees monitor their credit history and credit card transactions for potential fraudulent activities as a precautionary measureppFurthermore if you receive any emails claiming to be from Kwik Trip but asking for further sensitive information report them to the company and dont click any embedded linksppBleepingComputer has once again contacted Kwik Trip with further questions about the incident but received no response before the article was publishedppKwik Trip IT systems outage caused by mysterious network incidentppKwik Trip finally confirms cyberattack was behind ongoing outageppMortgage giant Mr Cooper hit by cyberattack impacting IT systemsppAmerican Family Insurance confirms cyberattack is behind IT outagesppCyberattack on health services provider impacts 5 Canadian hospitalsppKwik Trip lawyer probably well boys we know the data was encrypted which means we cant say there wasnt unauthorized access However we dont have any evidence that they downloaded or even looked at the data so we can say have no evidence of data acquisition ppSo rather than pay the fee get their data back and now can supply proof of their neglect in audit or leave it encrypted feign ignorance har har employee slappingfiring ensues pay the insurance claim play the fines and go back to making billions Sounds like an easy choice and business decision until the next compromise then rinserepeat
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