Garmin global outage caused by ransomware attack, sources say – By Zack Whittaker (Techcrunch) / July 25 2020
An ongoing global outage at sport and fitness tech giant Garmin was caused by a ransomware attack, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the incident.
The incident began late Wednesday and continued through the weekend, causing disruption to the company’s online services for millions of users, including Garmin Connect, which syncs user activity and data to the cloud and other devices. The attack also took down flyGarmin, its aviation navigation and route-planning service.
Portions of Garmin’s website were also offline at the time of writing.
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