cyber-crime

Company chiefs believe the attackers could be the same as those who used ARTEX to breach South Korea’s financial giants

UK domain registrar 123 Reg ( no relation – Ed ) says it was the victim of an “AI-driven cyberattack” that exposed customer data.

Customers began receiving their notification emails this week, informing them that their contact information, "related customer relationship data," company VAT numbers, and "product information from an application programming interface (API)" were compromised.

A company spokesperson elaborated, saying this means that names, phone numbers, countries, language and currency preferences, account creation dates, the products on the account, and marketing preferences were affected.

123 Reg described the September 18 intrusion as "the first known AI-driven cyberattack against our company," and told The Register that early signs point toward a China-nexus attacker.

"Our investigation identified IP addresses that we assessed to be the core attacker…