Marquis has sued SonicWall in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that a 2025 breach of SonicWall’s cloud backup service exposed firewall configuration backups and enabled a ransomware attack on Marquis’ network. The complaint says stolen emergency “scratch codes” and other configuration data allowed attackers to bypass defenses and steal sensitive PII, and Marquis seeks a jury trial. #Marquis #SonicWall
Keypoints
- Marquis filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas seeking a jury trial over a ransomware attack.
- The complaint alleges a 2025 SonicWall breach exfiltrated customer firewall configuration backups that attackers used to plan the intrusion.
- Hackers allegedly used emergency “scratch codes” from the backups to bypass firewall defenses and access Marquis’ network.
- The attackers deployed ransomware and stole PII, including names, dates of birth, addresses, bank account and card numbers, and Social Security numbers.
- SonicWall initially reported fewer than 5% of backups stolen but later said every customer’s backups were exfiltrated, with at least 400,000 people affected and an alleged February 2025 API flaw enabling the breach.
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