With cyberattacks continually rising, cyber criminals will take advantage of current events or previous breaches and claim they have infiltrated a business when they have not. Organizations should plan for false breach claims and must be ready to follow the necessary steps to confirm whether there has been an attack while keeping to regulatory obligations.
In August, Australia’s local domain name registrar, auDA was forced to correct the record after cyber criminals claimed to have accessed its data. auDA alerted relevant authorities and made public statements, at the same time it conducted investigations which found no evidence criminals had accessed its systems or data.
