AerCap, the world's largest aircraft leasing company, has reported a ransomware infection that occurred earlier this month, but claims it hasn't yet suffered any financial losses yet and all its systems are under control.
We promptly took steps to investigate with the support of third-party cybersecurity experts and notified law enforcement.
We have full control of all of our IT systems and to date, we have suffered no financial loss related to this incident.
Our investigation into this incident, including the extent to which data may have been exfiltrated or otherwise impacted, remains ongoing.
A ransomware crew called Slug has claimed responsibility for the intrusion and listed AerCap as its first public target.
According cyberattack analysts at Hackmanac, the criminals claim to have stolen 1TB of data belonging to AerCap.
AerCap did not respond to The Register's inquiries.
The biz is headquartered in Dublin, and its biggest customer is American Airlines.
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