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Coca-Cola’s Employee Data Leaked After Ignored Ransom
The Everest ransomware group hit Coca-Cola’s Dubai bottling partner. When the ransom was ignored, they dumped 1,104 files on dark web forums.
What got leaked? Personal data on 959 employees — full names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, banking details, salary records, passports, visas, and internal HR documents.
This is the reality of modern ransomware: it’s not just about encrypting your systems anymore. They steal first, then threaten to publish.
And here’s the uncomfortable truth — most organizations don’t even have a complete inventory of where employee PII lives. HR files, payroll exports, shared drives, email attachments.
If you can’t find it, you can’t protect it. And you definitely can’t negotiate when you don’t know what they took.