Seacom confirms "cyber security incident" in hosting environment

[Jan]

Seacom hit by cyber attack

Two separate Seacom business customers have told MyBroadband that their services have been offline since Wednesday morning without any communication from the company.

MyBroadband contacted Seacom for comment, after which it issued a statement confirming a “cyber security incident”.

 

[My_King]

Must be lekker to be in a team of IT and security specialists.

Im waiting for my D day. I am said team.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Hello Seacom - Need any help. I'm down the road. Can also pour you a stywe dop!

 

[jetlee]

Must be lekker to be in a team of IT and security specialists.

Im waiting for my D day. I am said team.

Been there, done that, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy ...

 

[Sinbad]

Been there, done that, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy ...

+1

 

[r00igev@@r]

Ironic

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656328309846712321

 

[lkpat]

It's bound to happen, it's what you do when it does happen that counts. Companies are going to have to start publically advertising their incident response programs.

 

[r00igev@@r]

It's bound to happen, it's what you do when it does happen that counts. Companies are going to have to start publically advertising their incident response programs.

Well in this case there is no transparency on what happened.
I can see that DOS attacks are originating from Seacom against all other ISPS in ZA.

 

[lkpat]

Well in this case there is no transparency on what happened.
I can see that DOS attacks are originating from Seacom against all other ISPS in ZA.

Exactly.
The perfect reason to ditch Seacom.

 

[Nataile]

Seacom hit by cyber attack

Two separate Seacom business customers have told MyBroadband that their services have been offline since Wednesday morning without any communication from the company.

MyBroadband contacted Seacom for comment, after which it issued a statement confirming a “cyber security incident”.

The outage has still not been resolved. This is day 6 of being affected by the outage/ cyber attack on Seacom with no communication directly from Seacom whatsoever. I have been informed by a third party that Seacom do not have our backups in place and that our data has been compromised and lost.

 

[lkpat]

The outage has still not been resolved. This is day 6 of being affected by the outage/ cyber attack on Seacom with no communication directly from Seacom whatsoever. I have been informed by a third party that Seacom do not have our backups in place and that our data has been compromised and lost.

Flip.
This is serious.
In b4 "but it's the clients responsibility to back up" ala Didata.