A excessive profile French basketball staff has fallen sufferer to the NoEscape ransomware-as-a-service group, who declare to have stolen 32 GB of knowledge together with delicate private details about the membership’s star gamers.

Lyon-based ASVEL, owned by former NBA star Tony Parker, has issued a press launch confirming rumours that unfold earlier this month that it had been hacked.

ASVEL says that the primary it knew of a possible safety breach was on October 12 when it was approached by members of the press who had noticed references to a hack of the basketball membership on NoEscape’s darkish net leak web site.

We’ve 32GB of knowledge similar to:
Gamers’ private knowledge!
Passports and ID playing cards!
Finance, taxes, insurance coverage, funds, banking. authorized paperwork, reviews, confidential letters!
Contracts for trying to find gamers in addition to confidential agreements and contracts, NDA!
Consumer paperwork and letters, in addition to tens of 1000’s of different confidential and essential paperwork stolen out of your servers and PCs.

NoEscape is threatening to publish the stolen knowledge except ASVEL is ready to barter a ransom cost. The cybercriminal group says that it has emailed directions to the membership about how negotiations can start:

We advise the LDLC ASVEL administration to make the precise resolution and phone us. In any other case, if you don’t contact us, all knowledge can be printed and the storm of issues that can await you’ll be harmful!!! Letters with directions have been despatched to your company emails, use them and we are going to show you how to resolve this drawback. Assign an individual to the place of negotiator, and inform him to contact us, we are going to clarify every part and show you how to resolve this drawback. Time is operating out.

ASVEL, which has introduced in third-party specialists to assist with its response to the ttack, says that its membership actions haven’t been disrupted, and that – to this point – it has not seen proof that followers’ cost data has been compromised.

The NoEscape ransomware first appeared in Could 2023. It’s usually believed to be a successor to the Avaddon ransomware group that was disbanded in 2021, and has just lately been within the information after warnings have been issued in regards to the gang’s focusing on of the healthcare sector.

The NoEscape ransomware group seems to not be eager on focusing on organisations primarily based in former Soviet international locations, providing a free decryptor if corporations inside Russia’s sphere of affect are breached. One imagines that the operators of the ransomware have adopted this coverage in an try to cut back the probabilities that they are going to discover themselves at odds with native legislation enforcement companies.