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It turns out that the primary source of Furniture Village s system failure is a cyber attack. The company only revealed the truth seven days into the database malfunction.
Furniture Village is the United Kingdom s biggest, most independent furniture retailer with 54 stores nationwide. The furniture giant has been experiencing a cyber-attack, but the details are yet to be released.
Cybercrime - 7-Day Database Malfunction
According to The Register, Furniture Village finally confirmed that their database is under a cyber-attack by an unknown individual or group. The attack started in the latter part of May 2021 when the company discovered that a handful of their retailers internal systems suddenly malfunctioned because they were down.
23 May 2021, 11:05 pm
The Conti Ransomware has been issued a flash alert by the country s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after initially suspected of already enacting its attack on the US Healthcare and Emergency network systems. Initially, the ransomware s victim was Ireland and has targeted its healthcare system, which has left it in a disastrous state.
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The ransomware attack affected the company s clients, disabling them from accessing their sites.
The goal of ransomware is always to make money, and to do this, it would need to access files that are of grave importance and value. Hence the successful attempt it has over its victim. This was what went down with the several ransomware cases of the past months and years, with Ireland being the latest victim, which held a massive toll on the country.