Canadian menswear retailer Harry Rosen has acknowledged being hit by a cyber attack last month.
This comes after the BianLian group listed the company as a victim on the gang’s site. The page lists “File server data. Projects, Marketing, HR, Public Relations,” which suggests these are files that have been copied and will potentially be released.
According to Brett Callow, a British Columbia-based threat analyst with Emsisoft, BianLian has released a 1GB file as proof of its attack. It claims the file is a list of Harry Rosen’s Gold+ clients, sales information, and various other types of documents.
In response to a query from IT World Canada, company CEO Larry Rosen sent this email on Friday morning: “We confirm that Harry Rosen was victim of a cyber attack that came to our attention on October 9th. Our network is now secure and we have been in regular communication with our customers and employees about the incident. We have also reported this to the police and to the federal privacy regulator and the privacy regulators in Alberta and Quebec.”
Asked in a follow-up to confirm that the attack was ransomware, and whether the attack affected company operations, Rosen said the retailer had no further comment.
