Oil Spill Cleanup Equipment Maker, Elastec, Hit In Cyberattack
Carmi, Illinois-based Elastec suffered a cyberattack after it discovered suspicious activity related to an employee’s email account.
In response, the manufacturer of oil spill cleanup and surface water pollution equipment took steps to secure its email environment and conduct a comprehensive investigation, which determined the Elastec employee email account ended up accessed without authorization between June 4 and June 18 by an unknown party.
Elastic, which operates in 155 countries, has three manufacturing facilities in southern Illinois, and Cocoa, Florida, they are a distributor of oil skimmers, oil boom, dispersant application systems, work boats, vacuum systems, portable incinerators, turbidity curtains and custom containment booms for floating trash, debris and aquatic week control.