The California-based networking {hardware} producer ‘A10 Networks’ has confirmed to BleepingComputer that the Play ransomware gang briefly gained entry to its IT infrastructure and compromised knowledge.

A10 Networks specializes within the manufacturing of software program and {hardware} utility supply controllers (ADC), id administration options, and bandwidth administration home equipment, whereas it additionally gives firewall and DDoS menace intelligence and mitigation companies.

Its prospects embody Twitter, LinkedIn, Samsung, Uber, NTT Communications, Sony Photos, Home windows Azure, Xbox, Yahoo, Alibaba, China Cellular, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Softbank, GE Healthcare, GoDaddy, and Huffington Put up.

In an 8-Ok submitting submitted earlier this week, the corporate says the safety incident occurred on January 23, 2023, and lasted for a number of hours earlier than its IT crew managed to cease the intrusion and include the harm.

The corporate’s investigation decided that the menace actors managed to achieve entry to shared drives, deployed malware, and ‘compromised’ knowledge associated to human assets, finance, and authorized capabilities.

Regardless of the profitable community intrusion, the agency says the safety incident has not impacted any of its merchandise or options and can’t have affected its prospects.

“Working with outdoors consultants, the Firm has contained the assault inside its community and has notified the suitable legislation enforcement authorities of the incident,” reads the 8-Ok submitting.

“The Firm at the moment doesn’t count on this incident to have a cloth impression on its operations.”

The Play ransomware gang added A10 Networks to its extortion web site yesterday, threatening to leak the information it stole in the course of the intrusion on Sunday.

The menace actors declare to own confidential information, together with technical documentation, worker and consumer paperwork, agreements, and private knowledge.

The Play ransomware group has grow to be one of the energetic gamers, recognized for concentrating on a Microsoft Change flaw to achieve distant code execution (RCE) and infiltrate sufferer networks.

The gang has just lately compromised the Belgian metropolis of Antwerp, the H-Accommodations lodge chain in central Europe, the Arnold Clark automobile retailer, and the cloud computing companies supplier Rackspace.