Gezixuan reported on November 5 that Schneider Electric, a French energy management and automation engineering giant, recently suffered a cyber attack, with hackers claiming to have successfully hacked into the company's JIRA system and stole 40GB of data.

The hacking group Greppy posted provocative remarks on social media and posted a small portion of the stolen data. Subsequently, the hackers further elaborated on the ransom demands on the dark web, demanding that Schneider Electric pay a ransom of $125,000 , but in a very special form - 400,000 baguettes.

The hackers threatened to publicly leak data, which included company projects, employee information, and user data, if the ransom demands were not met. Allegedly, the stolen data included "critical data such as projects, issues, and plugins, as well as more than 400,000 rows of user data."

To encourage Schneider Electric to admit to the attack as soon as possible, the hackers also offered an enticing offer: if Schneider Electric publicly admitted to being hacked within 48 hours, the ransom would be halved to $62,500, or 200,000 baguettes.

At the moment, it is unclear whether Schneider Electric has already met the requirements of the hackers. In a statement, the company acknowledged the cybersecurity incident, but did not explicitly confirm the scale of the stolen data. Schneider Electric said its global emergency response team is actively investigating the matter and stressed that the company's products and services are not affected.

At the same time, the hacker group Greppy also announced the formation of a new hacking group, the ICA. The group claims that the victim company will not demand a ransom if it admits to being hacked within 48 hours.