Coca-Cola says it is looking into a suspected data breach after a threat actor located in Russia began selling data supposedly belonging to the company.
On Monday, the Stormous hacker group said it had hacked Coca-Cola’s servers and stole 161 gigabytes of data. The threat actors demanded 1.65 Bitcoin, which is presently worth roughly $64,000.
Financial information, passwords, and business accounts are among the data it is said to have acquired.
“We hacked some of the company’s servers and passed a large amount of data inside them without their knowledge and we want to sell it to someone else,” Stormous’ said.
“You will win and we will win. You will also contact us! We will explain more Good deal, we’ll give you the right to pay the amount you want depending on the amount of data you want! Click on the picture to contact us or via our email.”
Coca-Cola has initiated an immediate inquiry and has already notified the authorities.
Stormous is a relatively new entry into the hacking scene, but it earned notoriety at the start of the year.
The group has claimed to have stolen 200 GB of data from Epic Games and went on to make news when it declared support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“And if any party in different parts of the world decides to organize a cyber-attack or cyber-attacks against Russia, we will be in the right direction and will make all our efforts to abandon the supplication of the West, especially the infrastructure,” the group wrote, in Arabic.
Stormous was thought to be Russian or connected to the Russian government in the past, but security experts aren’t sure.
The ransom letter left by the hackers in some of their earlier attacks was written in Arabic, which Digital Recovery believes may identify their country of origin.
Coca-Cola said in March that it was stopping business in Russia in protest of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Our hearts are with the people who are enduring unconscionable effects from these tragic events in Ukraine.”
“We will continue to watch and analyse the situation as events unfold,” the statement continued.
Coca-Cola executives believe that the decision will affect the company’s net revenue and operating profit by 1 to 2 per cent this year.
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