The Varta Group was the goal of a cyberattack on elements of its IT programs on the evening of Feb. 12, the battery producer has introduced. 5 manufacturing crops and the corporate’s administration have been affected.
“The IT programs and thus additionally manufacturing have been proactively shut down quickly for security causes and disconnected from the web,” Varta mentioned in an announcement.
This has principally paralyzed virtually all of Varta’s operations. The producer has three manufacturing websites in Germany — Ellwangen, the place it’s primarily based; Dischingen, and Nördlingen — in addition to additional meeting and packaging crops in Romania and Indonesia.
Varta employs round 4,600 individuals and is concentrating on annual gross sales of €900 million in 2024.
Nevertheless, the cyberattack has put a damper on these plans in the meanwhile. It’s nonetheless unclear what influence the security incident can have on enterprise. “The IT programs and the extent of the influence are at present being reviewed,” the assertion mentioned, including, “The utmost care is being taken to make sure knowledge integrity. The extent of the particular injury can’t be decided right now.”
No data is but obtainable on the character of the assault both. At current, we will solely speculate as as to whether the battery producer, like so many different corporations, has fallen sufferer to a ransomware gang. Who’s behind the cyberattack is at present simply as unclear, as are the questions of how the hackers have been in a position to entry the IT programs and whether or not ransom calls for have already been made.
