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Garmin Hit By Ransomeware Attack
Garmin servers are down due to a ransomware attack.The company is currently planning a multi-day maintenance window to deal with the attack's aftermath, which includes shutting down its official website, the Garmin Connect user data-syncing service, Garmin's aviation database services, and even some production lines in Asia. (www.zdnet.com) Mais...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
With all due respect to Garmin, it’s on them to safeguard their customer data. If I, Joe Schmoe, have a commercial grade firewall at my perimeter and I pay maintenance every year for it, Garnin had better be a damn sight more sophisticated than I am. This is aviation data damnit.
Ok, Who's head is going to roll on this? CEO, IT VP, ??
So pilots navigation data is down. If Garmin run their product through the same system as vulnerable social network system, they deserve to lose business. Using only one nav system sorta goes against the aircraft industry standard of redundancies as well.
I know what that feels like.... I run public servers as well and got hit with that... The people who do that kind of stuff should really be held accountable... No reason in this kind of thing happening, and the worst thing that you can do is to pay them off... If I said what I really felt should be done with those people, I would be banned from Flight Aware!
So Evil Corp. is up to it's old tricks again, are they. When are companies going to learn? Do not have a direct means into the server farms via employees computers. Separate the damn networks.
They went down yesterday (Thursday) around noon. I was able to connect to their Connect service through their app, but all of my 5 years worth of data was gone. Then, the app choked, and failed. They have been back to incommunicado since.
This is going to be a huge blow for them. If all user data is gone, it may take them years to get peoples trust back. I know I'll be pissed. Many bike trips I've taken are on their service. Who knew that I would have to back up their service to save my data. (I don't think they even HAD a backup option)
This will hurt them...
This is going to be a huge blow for them. If all user data is gone, it may take them years to get peoples trust back. I know I'll be pissed. Many bike trips I've taken are on their service. Who knew that I would have to back up their service to save my data. (I don't think they even HAD a backup option)
This will hurt them...