Garmin Confirms Ransomware Attack But Denies Data Leakage

Jul. 28, 2020

Garminon Monday announced that it was the victim of a cyber-attack earlier this month. In an official press release, the company said that the attackers encrypted some of its systems as part of a ransomware attack on July 23rd. As a result, many of its online services have been affected since that day.

According to the company, its website, customer support and company communications have faced problems because of the attack. However, the affected systems are being restored and are expected to return to normal over the next few days. Meanwhile, the functionality of Garmin products have remained unaffected, the company claimed.

The company also claimed that no customer data, including payment information from Garmin Pay, was exposed because of the attack.“We have no indication that any customer data … was accessed, lost or stolen”, the company said. According to Garmin,“We do not expect any material impact to our operations or financial results because of this outage. As our affected systems are restored, we expect some delays as the backlog of information is being processed”.

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