South African mining giant hacked MyBroadband

pLocal mining giant SibanyeStillwater one of the worlds biggest producers of platinum and gold has revealed that its global IT systems have suffered a cyberattackppIn a notice informing stakeholders the company said it has implemented security measures to isolate its IT systems and protect critical datappAs soon as the Company became aware of the incident immediate containment measures were implemented in line with our Incident Response plan to proactively isolate IT systems and safeguard data it saidppWhile the investigation into the incident is ongoing there has been limited disruption to the Groups operations globallyppIt emphasised that it takes such incidents seriously and is committed to addressing the breachppWe are voluntarily reporting this incident to the appropriate regulators and will provide further updates as necessary it addedppSibanyeStillwater has operations on five continents and is a global leader in platinum and gold production with a market cap of R605 billionppThe attack on the mining giant comes after a slew of cybercriminal acts targeting highprofile organisations in South AfricappSouth African packaging giant Nampak suffered a data breach in March 2024ppAn unknown third party gained access to its IT systems notwithstanding the companys robust and embedded security protocols Nampak statedppThe breach forced the company to resort to backup manual compensating controls to continue its operations while the breach was addressedppIt also forced it to delay the release of its interim results by a monthppIn early July 2024 Standard Bank suffered widespread problems with customers accounts being marked for fraudulent activity and blockedppThe bank was forced to deny allegations that it had suffered a data breach after its client base expressed outrage at the situationppInstead it blamed the issues on a spike in monthend transactions which had supposedly caused delayed responses from its call centreppPrivate companies arent the only South African organisations with a target on their back In late June 2024 the National Health Laboratory Service NHLS was forced to shut down its IT systems following a data breachppThe attackers left behind a message identifying themselves as the BlackSuit hacking groupppppppWhat type of backup power system do you have at homeppppView Resultsp