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Hyundai Motor Europe, the South Korean carmakers European division, has confirmed suffering aransomwareattack earlier this year.

However,BleepingComputeruncovered new evidence pointing to a data theft incident, after which Hyundai came clean and confessed.

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“Our investigations are ongoing, and we are working closely with external cybersecurity and legal experts.

Relevant local authorities have also been notified.

The companys anti-ransomware CryptoGuard technology detected a 62% increase, year-on-year, in intentional remote encryption attacks.

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