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Sydney-based bag manufacturer The Plastic Bag Company suffered a data breach as passports and tax details were published online as evidence of the hack.
A newly observed ransomware operation has listed Sydney-based manufacturer The Plastic Bag Company on its dark web leak site alongside more than two dozen other victims overnight.
The Sarcoma ransomware gang claimed to have stolen 3.6 gigabytes of data from the company and is threatening to publish the data within 26 days.
No ransom amount has been listed.
By way of evidence, Sarcoma already published several documents allegedly stolen during the hack. The data includes several tax returns with partial tax file numbers, wage details, an insurance document, and several passport scans. Some of the passports remain valid and belong to Australian and New Zealand nationals.
A spokesperson for The Plastic Bag Company confirmed it had suffered a cyber security incident but declined to comment any further on the incident.
According to ransomware tracker HackManac on X, Sarcoma more or less appeared overnight, with 30 victims listed in total on its leak site, with the stolen data totalling 5,324.76 gigabytes.
“For 14 targets published by the group, the ransom demands have already expired, and consequently, the data has been fully leaked. For the remaining targets, the ransom demands will expire between October 19 and November 9,” HackManac said.
“The group’s attacks do not appear to be focused on any specific industry or country, though there is a slight preference for the USA with six attacks, and Canada, Australia, and Spain with three attacks each.”
Cyber Daily is following up the other Australian attacks, as well as one alleged New Zealand-based victim.
As of writing, The Plastic Bag Company’s website is down for maintenance. According to the company’s Facebook page, The Plastic Bag Company is an “Australian-owned company with 30 years experience in converting, printing and extruding for the commercial market”.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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