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Coca-Cola won the Russian roulette

A group of hackers named Stormrous called its followers to participate in a poll using Telegram.


They offered a choice of four candidates for cyber attacks: Coca-Cola, Mattel, Science and Technology Corporation Danaher, Blackboard educational technology company and the provider of aircraft engines GE Aviation.


Coca-Cola won big with 72% of the votes.


Just a couple of days passed, and our favorite hackers delivered another post.


They said that the gang stole 161 gigabytes of data of Coca-Cola, including login credentials and financial data.


They offered the data at a bargain price of 1.6 Bitcoin (about 64,000 dollars).


Coca-Cola drew criticism from supporters of Russia for being among the first wave of Western companies to withdraw their business from the country in the early days of the invasion of Ukraine.


Maybe that's what sparked the fire.


Coca Cola provided aid of 15 billion dollars to the Red Cross and other organizations working to assistq refugees Ukrainians.


In early March this year, Stormous argued that they stole more than 200 gigabytes of data from Epic Games, which included the source code of the games, but Epic or other sources did not confirm such intrusion.


Actually none of the heroic stories of the infsumous hackers gang has been verified yet. Perhaps, it never happened.


Coke experienced in the past several scenarios of information leakage.


In early 2021, a company's engineer stole trade secrets by borrowing some sensitive documents.


This was discovered only when she worked at another company and was caught ... trying to do the same thing.


In 2017, another employee stole personal information contained on usb stick with data related to some 8,000 employees.


This event was also discovered long after it occured.


And in 2009, according to reports, the company was breached by Chinese hackers as it tried to takeover China Huiyuan Juice Company Group.


Data is the meaning of life. Keep it.


And don't forget - Data Ptotection Matters.



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