{"id":228022,"date":"2025-12-30T02:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/romanian-energy-provider-hit-by-gentlemen-ransomware-attack"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:21:02","slug":"romanian-energy-provider-hit-by-gentlemen-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/romanian-energy-provider-hit-by-gentlemen-ransomware-attack","title":{"rendered":"Romanian energy provider hit by Gentlemen ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/romanian-energy-provider-hit-by-gentlemen-ransomware-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ransomware attack hit Oltenia Energy Complex (Complexul Energetic Oltenia), Romania\u2019s largest coal-based energy producer, on the second day of Christmas, taking down its IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Romanian energy provider employs over 19,000 people, operates four power plants with an installed production capacity of 3,900 MWh, and provides about 30% of Romania\u2019s electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the attack, some documents and files were encrypted, and several computer applications became temporarily unavailable, including ERP systems, document management applications, the company\u2019s email service, and website,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CEOltenia\/posts\/pfbid08mkE6qQTSwGV8aJhgSeBsHfchQ773cWz6vV8zzUh7gygbqk8pzAaUhKHePqS75Ufl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ransomware attack hit Oltenia Energy Complex (Complexul Energetic Oltenia), Romania\u2019s largest coal-based energy producer, on the second day of Christmas, taking down its IT infrastructure. The 40-year-old Romanian energy provider employs over 19,000 people, operates four power plants with an installed production capacity of 3,900 MWh, and provides about 30% of Romania\u2019s electricity. \u201cAs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}