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Garmin has recently confirmed that the recent outage that took most of its services offline was the result of a hack attack that locked access to some of its systems.
The ransomware attack happened on July 23, and access to some Garmin services has been restored after some five days, with the company confirming that activities based on the official website, customer support, company communications, and custom facing applications like Garmin Connect were affected.
Garmin doesn’t provide any information regrading the group of hackers that might be behind the attack, but recent reports have suggested that the outage was caused by Russian-based Evil Corp.
The company explains that no customer data was accessed as a result of the attack, and Garmin Pay data is completely secure. Furthermore, Garmin says, no products were impacted, as only online…
Read the original article: Garmin Confirms Recent Outage Was Caused by Ransomware Attack