Royal Mail, whose international export services remain disrupted following a cyber incident, does not seem too fazed amid a threat from hackers that data stolen from the British postal service company will be publicised tomorrow, February 9.
“At this stage of the investigation, we believe that the vast majority of this data is made up of technical programme files and administrative business data,” The Telegraph quoted a Royal Mail spokesperson as saying, in response to LockBit’s supposed plan.
“All of the evidence suggests that this data contains no financial information or other sensitive customer information.”
Meanwhile Royal Mail is currently “working hard” to resume more services following last month’s cyberattack by the ransomware gang. At present, the postal service provider is unable to process new Royal Mail parcels purchased through Post Office branches.
In a service update, Royal Mail said: “We continue to make progress in exporting an increasing number of items to a growing number of international destinations.
“We are using alternative solutions and systems, which are not affected by the recent cyber incident and have been successfully despatching parcels and letters which were in our network before the cyber incident and our services which have recently reopened.”
It added: “As a result of this progress and the continuing growth in capability of our alternative export solutions, we have announced the restoration of many international export services.”
LockBit, a gang known to have Russian ties, reportedly posted ransom notes in Royal Mail warehouses in January. Now it remains to be seen whether it will, in fact, be publishing the company’s data.