“We identified an attempt to compromise our BT Conferencing platform. This incident was restricted to specific elements of the platform, which were rapidly taken offline and isolated.”
BT calls it an “attempt.” Black Basta says it took 500 GB, including passport copies, and posted screenshots and folder listings as proof. Servers went offline either way. The group has hit over 500 organizations in two years, often by flooding inboxes with spam and then working the victim over Microsoft Teams. A telecom giant’s first move was to argue about the word compromise.