World's largest distributor of books suffers ransomware attack

On Aug 29, Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of books to libraries worldwide, confirmed it's still working on restoring systems after being hit by ransomware more than a week ago.

As Baker & Taylor reported on Aug 23, its networks were down after an outage that impacted the company's phone systems, offices, and service centers.

One day later, the library services provider revealed that disruptions to its business-critical systems stemming from the incident would persist through the week while technical teams work on restoring impacted servers.

As an update, the source of the disruption is a ransomware attack launched against our network over the weekend, which we have been working to remediate ever since.

Cyber-attacks are an increasing threat to all companies, and unfortunately, we, like others fell victim to a hacker's attack. Our IT team and outside experts are working nonstop to restore our systems.

Currently, there is no information on what ransomware group or affiliate is behind the attack.

The other day, a technology provider for the world’s largest airlines Accelya reported it became a victim of a ransomware attack impacting some of its networks.