A Hacker Wants About $5 Million in Ransom From Pemex By End of November

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https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/a-hacker-wants-about-5-million-in-ransom-from-pemex-by-end-of-november-1.1347575

By Amy Stillman, William Turton and Alyza Sebenius
Bloomberg News
November 13, 2019

(Bloomberg) -- The hacker behind a cyberattack that has crippled Petroleos 
Mexicanos’s computer systems since the weekend is hoping to squeeze about $5 
million out of the company and appears to have set a deadline of Nov. 30.

Pemex has other ideas, saying it won’t pay the ransom and hopes to solve the 
cyberattack problem today, according to comments made by Mexico energy minister 
Rocio Nahle on Wednesday.

Those comments were the latest in an unfolding drama that has pitted the 
Mexican oil giant against an unknown hacker who uses the name “Joseph Atkins” 
in an email address -- almost surely a pseudonym. Responding to an email from 
Bloomberg News, the person declined to comment about Pemex until Nov. 30, the 
end of a three week deadline.

The person also said his group’s hacks aren’t limited to the oil sector and 
suggested they were responsible for a previous cyberattack on Roadrunner 
Transportation Systems Inc., a truck freight transportation services company 
based in Wisconsin. “They did not pay and recovered themselves, and left us 
GB’s of their data,” the person said, in broken English.

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