On Thursday night, a ransomware attack hit the company network causing an outage of its multimedia messaging and data feed services (i.e. TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite (MMS)).
“We are rebuilding the core system
TVEyes core server & engineering workstations were targeted by a ransomware attack and caused an outage.
— TVEyes, Inc. (@TVEyesInc) January 31, 2020
We are rebuilding the system & expect to have TVEyes back online soon, but do not have an exact ETA. We appreciate your patience & will provide updates as they are available.
CEO David Ives confirmed that the company did not pay the ransom and that the internal staff restored from backups after sanitized the impacted systems.
“All the engineers have been working on this since early yesterday morning, and there’s no evidence that was downloaded,” said TVEyes CEO David Ives.
“Ives said in an interview. “It appears it was purely an attack to make money.”
Another unknown aspect of the attack is that at the time it is not clear if the hackers have
The company CEO added that the attack didn’t appear to be the result of a cyber espionage campaign aimed at stealing data on political
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