Apache OpenOffice says it wasn't hit by cyberattack - despite ransomware hacker claims

• Akira ransomware claims to have breached OpenOffice and stolen 23GB of sensitive corporate data
• Apache denies breach, citing OpenOffice’s open source nature and lack of employee or private data
• No ransom demand received; investigation launched, but no police notified due to lack of evidence

The Akira ransomware group recently added OpenOffice to its list of breached organizations and said that it would soon release dozens of gigabytes of stolen “corporate files”.

However the Apache Software Foundation, the organization behind the open source office software suite, hinted at a major misunderstanding on Akira’s side, since such a breach did not, and basically could not have happened, on its systems.

Akira said it would be announcing a data leak soon: "We will upload 23gb of corporate documents soon. Employee information (addresses, phones, DOB, driver licenses, social security cards, credit cards information and so on), financial information ...