B.E.L.’s C.E.O. Extends Apology to Customers Following Cyber Attack

John Mencias

According to C.E.O. Mencias, the company has taken steps to employ further security measures. He emphasized the fact that data such as credit card information was not leaked, because B.E.L. does not store such information on its system. C.E.O. Mencias also extended an apology to the customers, employees and stakeholders affected by the incident.

John Mencias, Chief Executive Officer, Belize Electricity Limited

“We BEL and I as the CEO would like to personally and sincerely apologize to all our customers and employees and all other stakeholders affected by this data breach and any adverse outcome that may arise out of it. We will be reaching out and we are reaching out to every individual customer and employee and seller whose data was uploaded unto this dark web and personally apologize and let them know what data was put out there on the dark web. They are a group that uses a double extortion technique, the come around and leak about five percent of the data and tell you listen there is more we can leak, give me something or otherwise I will go another step and leak more data. In this case it seems they leaked all. We take nothing for granted. These are cyber criminal and we are not going to believe a word they say and trust them.”