Optical Vendor Ribbon Suffers Cybersecurity Incident
Telcos worldwide are experiencing cyberbreaches, but vendors are also being targeted.
Optical system vendor Ribbon Communications, based in Plano, Texas, recently fell victim to a cybersecurity incident.
Unauthorized persons, reportedly associated with a nation-state actor, believed to be a reference to China, hacked the vendor.
The hackers remained in Ribbon's IT systems for almost a year, according to the company's 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The incident is disclosed on page 57 of the 10-Q filing under "Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure".
Author's summary: Ribbon Communications suffered a cybersecurity incident.
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