Knights of Old transport

[High Dyke]

Used to see their lorries frequently.

BBC News - Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company - BBC News

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company

Transport company KNP forced to shut down after international hacker gangs target thousands of UK businesses.

www.bbc.co.uk

One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work.

KNP - a Northamptonshire transport company - is just one of tens of thousands of UK businesses that have been hit by such attacks.

In 2023, KNP was running 500 lorries – most under the brand name Knights of Old.

The company said its IT complied with industry standards and it had taken out insurance against cyber-attack.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I had wondered why I hadn't seen any for a while!

In summary - a single person with access to the entire system wasn't required to have a second factor authorisation to log on?!

...and it seems they didn't have a back up of their data, held independently of their system, either?!?!?

 

[Dai Corner]

That shouldn't bring a company down.

A disaster recovery plan should have been in place and all data should have been backed up off-site, at the very least.

 

[Ediswan]

Apart from possbly the detail of the weak password, this is not news. It is the BBC using its news site to advertise upcoming broadcast content (Panorama).

 

[Gloster]

The fall of KNP also took down Nelson Distribution of Belper and Steve Porter Transport of the Isle of Wight. They were the N and P of the group.

 

[Blade Fisher]

The fall of KNP also took down Nelson Distribution of Belper and Steve Porter Transport of the Isle of Wight. They were the N and P of the group.

Yep. I was a bit taken aback when Steve Porter went bang. Any idea who replaced them?

 

[Gloster]

Yep. I was a bit taken aback when Steve Porter went bang. Any idea who replaced them?

I believe it was Acclaim Logistics of Southampton. Despite geographical proximity, I don’t know a great deal about rubber-tyred road thingies.