{"id":32920,"date":"2019-10-25T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=32920"},"modified":"2019-10-25T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:50:00","slug":"shipping-giant-pitney-bowes-hit-by-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/25\/shipping-giant-pitney-bowes-hit-by-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping giant Pitney Bowes hit by ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/author\/zack-whittaker\/\">Zack Whittaker<\/a> &#8211; Shipping tech giant&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/pitney-bowes\" target=\"_blank\">Pitney Bowes&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/airmail-envelope-163625__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32921\" width=\"281\" height=\"181\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maintenance.pb.com\/pbcom\/outage.html?pbcom=october-14\">in a statement<\/a>&nbsp;that its systems were hit by a \u201cmalware attack that encrypted information\u201d on its systems, more commonly known as <strong>ransomware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this time, the company has seen no evidence that customer or employee data has been improperly accessed,\u201d the statement said, but many of its internal systems are offline, causing disruption to client services and other corporate processes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said it\u2019s working with a third-party consultant to address the issue. But it\u2019s not immediately known what kind of <strong>ransomware<\/strong> encrypted its systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson, when reached, did not comment beyond the published statement.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/14\/pitney-bowes-ransomware-attack\/&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoUMTIxMjYwMDkwOTI4OTU2NjQ0NjAyGmY5NWQ3ZDU3NzU5MmRlMjE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9-54cGyAUUMbDqfvehA27BNqrAw\">Read On: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zack Whittaker &#8211; Shipping tech giant&nbsp;Pitney Bowes&nbsp;&nbsp;has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. The company said&nbsp;in a statement&nbsp;that its systems were hit by a \u201cmalware attack that encrypted information\u201d on its systems, more commonly known as ransomware. \u201cAt this <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/25\/shipping-giant-pitney-bowes-hit-by-ransomware\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-32920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}