Update on the 49ers ransomware attack

I covered this story when it broke back in February and it had a connection to me as I have a San Francisco 49ers account. It contained no financial details but I immediately changed my credentials. I do not reuse passwords, so that was a non-issue for me.

Now the team is reporting on the scale of the attack and the amount of information compromised.

More than 20,000 SSNs stolen during ransomware attack on San Francisco 49ers – The Record by Recorded Future

Your takeaway from this should be – do not reuse passwords and do not let your team reuse passwords. This is a classic attack that will exploit that lapse in your cyber security. Passwords and their use and misuse is one of the modules in our online training course at:

Cyber Security Experts | Awareness | Consultancy | Investigations (cyberawake.co.uk)

Further Reading

49ers hit by BlackByte ransomware – Smart Thinking Solutions