Apache OpenOffice claims not to have been hit by cyberattack, despite ransomware hacker’s claims

• Akira ransomware claims to have breached OpenOffice and stolen 23GB of sensitive corporate data
• Apache denies violation, citing OpenOffice’s open source nature and lack of personal or private data
• No ransom demands received; investigation opened, but no police were informed due to lack of evidence

The Akira ransomware group recently added OpenOffice to its list of breached organizations and announced that it would soon release dozens of gigabytes of stolen “corporate files.”

However, the Apache Software Foundation, the organization behind the open source office suite, suggested that there was a major misunderstanding on Akira’s part, since such a breach did not and basically could not have occurred on its systems.