Quote:Foxconn Technology Group confirmed Tuesday that a November cyberattack knocked some of its U.S. operations offline. The incident is reportedly a ransomware attack carried out by a cybergang attempting to extort $34 million from the global manufacturing powerhouse.
 
“We can confirm that an information system in the U.S. that supports some of our operations in the Americas was the focus of a cybersecurity attack on November 29,” Foxconn said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The system that was affected by this incident is being thoroughly inspected and being brought back into service in phases,” the company said in a press statement.
 
According to a BleepingComputer report, the attack is believed to have been carried out by the DoppelPaymer cybergang. Hit was Foxconn’s manufacturing facility located in Chihuahua, Mexico. Criminals reportedly encrypted 1,200 servers, downloaded 100GB of data and deleted between 20-to-30TB backups.
 
Confidential Foxconn business documents appear to have been released publicly by the attackers in an attempt to verify that the data systems have been breached. Foxconn did not confirm with Threatpost the legitimacy of documents made public and reported on by BleepingComputer.