Australia
AUS
Fastmail DDoS extortion disrupts user access to email service
In a campaign starting October 21, 2021, DDoS traffic against Fastmail intermittently prevented or slowed customers accessing the email service. Fastmail acknowledged ongoing extortion attempts and mitigation work while confirming that email data was not lost.
70
Estimated severity
70 / 100
93
Source reliability
93 / 100
Approximate Date
2021-10-21
Targeted Company
FASTMAIL
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
Australia
Affected countries
Australia
Impacted regions
No information
Operational Impact
Duration
No information
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Service degradationService unavailability
Affected sectors
Technology & IT Services
Affected departments
Information Technology
Attack Profile
Attack types
Distributed denial of serviceExtortion
Attributed threat actors
CURSED PATRIARCH