“Given the limited nature of the incident, we have not experienced, and do not currently believe that the incident is reasonably likely to have, a material impact to our financial condition or operating results,” the cybersecurity giant added. The company also said that it initiated an investigation and has now successfully terminated the unauthorized access.

Fortinet is yet to publicly confirm the type and size of data breached in the incident. Questions emailed to Fortinet regarding the validity of Fortibitch’s ransomware claims and additional details on the breach remained unanswered till the publishing of this article.

Failed negotiations

Fortibitch, in their claim on the dark web, said they were able to access Azure SharePoint data from an open Amazon S3 bucket and are now making it all public as Fortinet has declined their ransom demands.