Garmin confirms a ransomware attack took its systems offline

As expected, Garmin has confirmed that the ongoing outage that affected many of sport and fitness firm's services was the result of a cyberattack. In a brief statement the company explains that the attack encrypted some of its systems on July 23, and then goes on to explain what happened and what was affected: As a result, many of our online services were interrupted including website functions, customer support, customer facing applications, and company communications. We immediately began to assess the nature of the attack and started remediation. We have no indication that any customer data, including payment information from… [Continue Reading]