Exclusive: The Plastic Bag Company falls victim to Sarcoma ransomware attack
Sydney-based bag manufacturer The Plastic Bag Company suffered a data breach when passport and tax information was published online as evidence of the hack.
A recently observed ransomware operation listed Sydney-based manufacturer The Plastic Bag Company on its dark web leak site alongside more than two dozen other victims overnight.
The Sarcoma ransomware gang claimed to have stolen 3.6GB of data from the company and is threatening to release the data within 26 days.
No ransom amount was indicated.
As proof, Sarcoma has already published several documents allegedly stolen during the hack. The data includes several tax returns with partial tax file numbers, salary details, an insurance document and several passport scans. Some passports remain valid and belong to Australian and New Zealand nationals.
A spokesperson for The Plastic Bag Company confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident, but declined to comment further on the incident.
According to ransomware tracker HackManac on X, Sarcoma appeared more or less overnight, with 30 victims listed in total on its leak site, with stolen data totaling 5,324.76 gigabytes.
“For 14 targets published by the group, the ransom demands have already expired and, therefore, the data has been fully disclosed. For the remaining targets, the ransom demands will expire between October 19 and November 9,” HackManac said.
“The group’s attacks do not appear to focus on any particular industry or country, although there is a slight bias towards the United States with six attacks, and Canada, Australia and Spain with three attacks everyone.”
Cyber Daily is tracking the other Australian attacks, as well as that of an alleged victim based in New Zealand.
At the time of writing, The Plastic Bag Company website is under maintenance. According to the company’s Facebook page, The Plastic Bag Company is an “Australian company with 30 years of experience in converting, printing and extruding for the commercial market.”
