ASVEL's sensitive data breached in a cyberattack / News - Basketnews.com

Private documents, players' data, passports, ID cards, contract information, and other sensitive data has been stolen.

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On the day of the second game of the new EuroLeague season, bad news reached LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne's camp.

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According to aCybernews report, the French organization has been hit with a cyberattack by a ransomware gang, NoEscape.

32 gigabytes of data were stolen, including players' personal data, passports, ID cards, financial documents, contracts, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), and other confidential material.

The exact method of how the data breach happened is currently unclear. ASVEL have not publicly addressed the matter yet.

NoEscape have hit 54 various organizations, Cybernews writes, with ransomware demands ranging from several hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

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