Hommam Al Nassim 
Internet hackers have threatened to publish confidential data from the Italian company “Eni,” which is partly owned by the Libyan company Mellitah Oil & Gas, unless they receive a payment of 50 million dollars.
The Italian energy company revealed that a hacker group called “RansomHub” asked for $50 million in exchange for not publishing a single terabyte of data.
A spokesman for the company said the incident did not affect production and operational activities in general, and said the damage was limited to Mellita, adding that work was underway to gradually restore damaged IT systems.
In turn, the site (hackmanac) specialized in cybersecurity issues, revealed that the hackers seized 1 terabyte of the company’s financial, banking and production data and confidential correspondence, and offered it for sale on the Internet.
The group claimed to have obtained all the confidential data of the company and its customers, published samples of what it stole, and gave the company until May 4 to pay the ransom.
The data stolen from the company included financial and banking documents, personal data of employees, geological reports and forecasts, details of oil production in different regions, in addition to correspondence and confidential information about the company’s tenders, and internal correspondence of the company’s employees and customers.
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