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A ransomware chemical group called Hunters International has issue some of the data it claims to have stolen from Tata Technologies , just over a calendar month after the Indian companyconfirmed a ransomware attackthat resulted in the suspension of some services .
The leaked information , published on the gang ’s dark web leak site — which TechCrunch has see — include personal details about some current and former employees at Tata Technologies , as well as confidential information , including leverage lodge and the companionship ’s contract with customer in India and the United States .
The ransomware gang says the dataset admit over 730,000 document , include Excel spreadsheets , PowerPoint presentations , and PDF files , cumulatively totaling about 1.4 terabytes in size .
In later January , Tata Technologies inform Indian stock exchanges about a ransomware attack that affected “ a few ” of the company ’s IT plus . At the metre , Tata say its guest services “ stay full functional and unaffected throughout . ”
It is unclear whether the data upload by the Hunters International ransomware group is relate to the ransomware attack that Tata Technologies disclosed earlier this class . When contacted multiple times by TechCrunch , representative for Tata have not yet provided remark .
institute in 1989 as an self-propelling unit of Tata Motors , Tata Technologies spin off as a separate companionship in 1994 and has been operating as a foot soldier of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group since .
Tata Technologies provides production engineering and research and development service to automotive , aerospace equipment shaper , and engineering companies across 27 countries . The troupe has 20 delivery centers and over 12,500 employee , per its website .
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Surfacing in previous 2023 , Hunters International is a relatively newransomware - as - a - service group , which lease out its substructure to affiliate hacker who transport out ransomware attacks , and Hunters International takes a cut of the proceeds from ransom payments .
Hunters International also appears to have some links with the Hive ransomware gang , which police force enforcement way largelydisruptedin 2023 . The Hive gangleaked some of the data point stolenby another Tata Group society , Tata Power , in 2022 .
