"Today, the Akira ransomware gang claimed that it breached the network of Nissan Australia, the Australian division of Japanese car maker Nissan.
In a new entry added to the operation's date leak blog on December 22, Akira says that its operators allegedly stole around 100GB of documents from the automaker's systems.
The attackers have threatened to leak sensitive business and client data online, as ransom negotiations with Nissan failed after the company either refused to engage or pay the ransom."
The same country which insists that nothing could possibly go wrong from getting companies to retain far more data than they need.