Garmin confirms cyber attack caused system outage – iTnews

Activity and location tracker company Garmin has confirmed that last week’s outage was caused by a cyber attack that encrypted some of its systems, but stopped short of saying it was caused by ransomware.
On July 24, many of Garmin’s online services went offline along with its call centres, email and online chat systems.
Users were unable to access the services and sync their data, and the outage affected Garmin’s avionics products as well.
Now Garmin said it “was the victim of a cyber attack…

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