A ransomware group says it lifted more than 630 gigabytes from the Indian manufacturer, including purported design files belonging to two of its biggest customers. The authenticity of those files is unconfirmed.
India’s Tata Electronics has confirmed that it detected a cybersecurity incident on some of its systems a few weeks ago, after a ransomware group posted what it claims are component design and specification documents belonging to Apple and Tesla.
Both companies are customers of the wider Tata group, and both names appearing in the same leak is precisely the sort of detail that turns a routine intrusion into an international story.
The group behind the breach calls itself World Leaks. On its dark-web site it claims the haul from Tata Electronics runs to more than 200,000 files totalling over 630 gigabytes, a volume large enough to suggest either a deep compromise or a great deal of padding, and at this stage there is no way to tell which from the outside.
What is in those files, according to World Leaks and the researchers who have examined the listing, is where the alarm comes from.
