Brazilian aerospace giant Embraer has revealed it suffered a data breach last week, although local reports suggest ransomware was involved.
The aircraft-maker, the world’s third largest after Boeing and Airbus, claimed in a brief statement on Monday that it suffered a cyber-attack resulting in the disclosure of data “attributed to the company” in the early hours of November 30.
Confusingly, the announcement also notes that the actual incident was identified on November 25, last Wednesday.
According to the statement, the attack “made access to only a single environment of the company’s files unavailable.”
The firm said it is now working to “normalize” its operations, which would indicate that at least some disruption had occurred.
“As a result of this occurrence, the company immediately initiated its procedures of investigation and resolution of the event, as well as proceeding with the proactive isolation of some of its systems to protect the systems environment, thus causing temporary impact on some of its operations,”
it continued.
“The company continues to operate with the use of contingency systems, with no material impact to its activities.”
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