Breaches and incidents
Air Traffic and Navigation Services (South Africa): forensic probe after ransomware-linked attack
Business Day/TimesLive (26 Sep) report ATNS brought in forensic investigators after a “ransomware attack, with possible data exfiltration and employee...
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- Business Day/TimesLive (26 Sep) report ATNS brought in forensic investigators after a “ransomware attack, with possible data exfiltration and employee involvement under scrutiny”; an ATNS tender dated 1 Sep sought a provider for forensic investigations into “malware incidents at FAPE” (Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha) and “alleged data theft at FAMM.”
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- Investigation ongoing; the full article body could not be loaded, so ATNS’s own statement and any flight impact were not confirmed. The lead’s OT/weather-system detail was not in the sources fetched.