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by tgsovlerkhgsel 886 days ago
It only affecting one datacenter is good news, IMO:

It makes it likely that the attackers didn't breach Tietoevry itself, or that they had only very limited access (unless Tietoevry has incredibly good separation between business units, so that only a small subset is affected).

That increases the chance that the customers have to deal with an outage, not an outage followed by ransom demands and their customer data being leaked.

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They obviously had no separation at all between customers within the DC though. Which is worrying.
At the moment word is that attackers encrypted Tietoevrys hypervisor platform (Hyper-V, vSphere or KVM not known) which was hosting multiple customers VMs. So attackers breached Tietoevrys management network, not customer networks.
TietoEvry do the same in Norway, where accounts are prefixed with customer name.