Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/co ... r-BB1gBzhB
Also, evidently the ransomware only effected the business operations side, not any systems responsible for running the pumps. Maybe they had no backups in place, or only had on-site backups. Regardless, an organization of this size should have someone in their IT department that knows to keep off-site backups. Then you just wipe the effected systems, restore from backup, and boom, you're done. You're down a day at the most.However, the hacker group issued an unusual apology for the attack later the same day, saying it would "introduce moderation" to "avoid social consequences in the future" and insisted that it was entirely profit-driven and "apolitical", in a statement posted to the dark web.
"We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, [you] do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for ... our motives," the group seemingly wrote, as reported by BBC News.
"Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society. From today we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future," it reportedly said.