Investigation into whether the incident has resulted in the exposure of sensitive data is already being conducted alongside a third-party agency, noted Casio, which did not provide further details regarding the nature of the attack or the identity of its perpetrators.
After shutting down its systems on September 20, MoneyGram issued an email update five days later stating that it has since restored most of its operations with the assistance of CrowdStrike and other third-party cybersecurity experts, as well as U.S. law enforcement.
Michigan's Wayne County, which is the state's largest, had many of its government offices disrupted and all of its government sites taken down following a cyberattack against certain internal systems this week.
Such record-breaking intrusion has been thwarted alongside more than 100 other hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks of similar intensity that have been launched against organizations in the telecommunications, financial services, and internet industries as part of a campaign that began early last month.
Additional details regarding the extent or perpetrators of the breach were not provided but the French international news agency said that global news coverage had not been affected by the intrusion while noting an ongoing investigation into the incident alongside the French National Agency for IT Systems Security.
Major U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram had its services subjected to disruptions that have been ongoing since Friday following a cybersecurity issue that resulted in the takedown of certain systems.