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SNAP-ON DISCLOSES DATA BREACH CLAIMED BY CONTI RANSOMWARE GANG
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LAWRENCE ABRAMS
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American automotive tools manufacturer Snap-on announced a data breach exposing
associate and franchisee data after the Conti ransomware gang began leaking the
company's data in March.
Snap-on is a leading manufacturer and designer of tools, software, and
diagnostic services used by the transportation industry through various brands,
including Mitchell1, Norbar, Blue-Point, Blackhawk, and Williams.
Yesterday, Snap-on disclosed a data breach after they detected suspicious
activity in their network, which led to them shutting down all of their systems.
"In early March, Snap-on detected unusual activity in some areas of its
information technology environment. We quickly took down our network connections
as part of our defense protocols, particularly appropriate given heightened
warnings from various agencies," reads a notice on the Snap-on website.
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"We launched a comprehensive analysis assisted by a leading external forensics
firm, identified the event as a security incident, and notified law enforcement
of the incursion."
After conducting an investigation, Snap-on discovered that threat actors stole
personal data belonging to employees between March 1st and March 3rd, 2022.
"We believe the incident involved associate and franchisee data including
information such as: names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and
employee identification numbers," discloses a Snap-on data breach notification
submitted to the California Attorney General's office.
Snap-on is offering a free one-year subscription to the IDX identity theft
protection service for those affected.
CONTI CLAIMED AN ATTACK ON SNAP-ON
While Snap-on's data breach notification did not shed much light on its attack,
BleepingComputer received an anonymous tip in early March stating that one of
Snap-on's subsidiaries, Mitchell1, was suffering an outage caused by a
ransomware attack.
Mitchell1 had initially tweeted about the outage but soon deleted the notices
from Twitter and Facebook.
Deleted Mitchell1 tweet about the outage
Source: Archive.org
However, another source told BleepingComputer that it was not Mitchel11 who had
suffered an attack but their parent company Snap-on.
Soon after, threat intelligence researcher Ido Cohen spotted that the Conti
ransomware gang claimed to have attacked Snap-on and had begun to leak almost 1
GB of documents that were allegedly stolen during the attack.
The Conti gang quickly removed the data leak, and Snap-on has not reappeared on
their data leak site, leading security researchers to tell BleepingComputer that
they believe Snap-on paid a ransom for the data not to be leaked.
BleepingComputer has contacted Snap-on to confirm if the disclosed data breach
is linked to the alleged Conti ransomware attack, and we will update this story
if we hear back.
WHO IS CONTI RANSOMWARE?
Conti is a ransomware operation operated by a Russian hacking group known for
other malware infections, such as Ryuk, TrickBot, and BazarLoader.
Conti commonly breaches a network after corporate devices become infected with
the BazarLoader or TrickBot malware infections, which provide remote access to
the hacking group.
Once they gain access to an internal system, they spread through the network,
steal data, and deploy the ransomware.
The Conti gang recently suffered their own data breach after siding with Russia
over the invasion of Ukraine, leading to a Ukrainian researcher publishing
almost 170,000 internal chat conversations between the Conti ransomware gang
members and the Conti ransomware source code.
Conti siding with Russia on the invasion of Ukraine
Source: BleepingComputer
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Due to the cybercrime gang's ongoing activity, the US government issued an
advisory on Conti ransomware attacks.
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