Asias largest undersea submarine cable company Pacnet was hacked into by unknown hackers.

According to Telstra the cyber attack took place just weeks before it concluded the $550mn (approx.

350mn) takeover of Pacnet on 16th April this year.

Submarine network operator Pacnet hit by a major cyber attack

It also said that it was not aware of the hacking attack while signing the takeover deal.

Whilst we will look into who was behind the breach we may never know as attribution is very difficult.

spot_img

source: www.techworm.net