{"id":76665,"date":"2023-04-24T03:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T07:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=76665"},"modified":"2023-06-04T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T19:50:31","slug":"ncr-suffers-aloha-pos-outage-after-blackcat-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/ncr-suffers-aloha-pos-outage-after-blackcat-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"NCR suffers Aloha POS outage after BlackCat ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;<a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/author\/lawrence-abrams\/\" rel=\"author\">Lawrence Abrams<\/a> &#8211;&nbsp;NCR is suffering an outage on its Aloha point of sale platform after being hit by an <strong>ransomware<\/strong> attack claimed by the BlackCat\/ALPHV gang.&nbsp;&nbsp;NCR is an American software and technology consulting company that provides digital banking, POS system, and payment processing solutions for restaurants, businesses, and retailers.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of their products, the Aloha POS platform used in hospitality services, has suffered an outage since Wednesday, with customers unable to utilize the system.<\/p>\n<p>After days of silence, NCR has disclosed today that the outage was caused by a <strong>ransomware<\/strong> attack on data centers used to power their Aloha POS platform.&nbsp; &#8220;As a valued customer of NCR Corporation, we are reaching out with additional information about a single data center outage that is impacting a limited number of ancillary Aloha applications for a subset of our hospitality customers,&#8221; reads an email sent to Aloha POS customers.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;On April 13, we confirmed that the outage was the result of a ransomware incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately upon discovering this development we began contacting customers, engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and launched an investigation.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Law enforcement has also been notified.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/ncr-suffers-aloha-pos-outage-after-blackcat-ransomware-attack\/&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoUMTEzMDMyNTIyMzQ1MjY2MzQwODIyGmY5NWQ3ZDU3NzU5MmRlMjE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&amp;usg=AOvVaw2CnA1zRotsZ8FIuZW9V1io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCR is suffering an outage on its Aloha point of sale platform after being hit by an ransomware attack claimed by the BlackCat\/ALPHV gang.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/ncr-suffers-aloha-pos-outage-after-blackcat-ransomware-attack\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76730,"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-76665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Black-Cat-typing-on-a-computer-1.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76665","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=76665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}