Hackers claim to have hacked an engineering company, offer to sell information on three major US utilities

• Hackers claim to have stolen more than 800 sensitive engineering files from Pickett and Associates, a company linked to major US utilities.
• The data includes LiDAR point clouds, orthophotos, design files and transmission corridor maps, now on sale for around $600,000.
• Duke Energy investigates; The attackers also sell data from German company Enerparc AG, indicating that they are focusing on critical infrastructure.

Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based civil engineering, surveying and geospatial services company, was allegedly hacked and had sensitive client data stolen.

Earlier this week, cybercriminals posted a new thread on a dark web forum claiming to have stolen more than 800 files from the company. The data, they say, is “real operational engineering data from active large utility projects and is suitable for infrastructure analysis and risk assessment.”