Shareholders allege FedEx covered up damages caused by NotPetya attack
FedEx shareholders are accusing the company’s executives of failing to disclose the full extent of the NotPetya ransomware attack while also selling tens of millions of dollars worth of their own stock in the company, according to a lawsuit filed last week. Stock owners filed a lawsuit on Sept. 17 alleging that FedEx brass provided “materially false and misleading statements” about the ransomware attack that locked up systems at company subsidiary TNT Express more than two years ago. NotPetya wreaked havoc on corporate giants including Maersk, the British advertising firm WPP and the pharmaceutical conglomerate Merck. The White House blamed Russia for the attack, which caused more than $10 billion in damages and spurred a number of high profile lawsuits in the private sector. In this case, the suit alleges FedEx failed to inform its shareholders that TNT Express customers were abandoning the company in favor of other logistics providers […]
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