Hackers demand '$125,000 in baguettes' as ransom from multi-billion dollar French firm

The hacking group has given the firm until Thursday to cough up the ransom dough

A new hacking group that breached the systems of a French multinational corporation has given the firm until Thursday to cough up the ransom dough: $125,000 USD worth of baguettes.

On Monday, Hellcat, a new cybercrime enterprise of which little is known, posted to its dark web ransomware leak site that it had successfully breached the global energy management and digital automation company’s Atlassian Jira infrastructure and stolen “more than 40 GB of compressed data.”