Italian Home Appliance Manufacturer Smeg Shuts Down Systems after Cyberattack

November 20, 2024

INCIDENT

The Italian home appliance manufacturer Smeg said said on September 17, it was "back up and running" after an "unfortunate cyber attack" that hit Wednesday 12 September.

Company statement on Twitter read: "Unfortunately we have been the victim of a targeted cyber attack and as such have taken immediate steps to totally shut our systems down to protect our customers and ourselves. At this time we have no reason to believe any of our customer information has been exposed. We have a specialist team working around the clock to resolve this issue and get us operational ASAP."

Incident Date

September 12, 2018

Location

Italy

Estimated Cost

Systems down 4-5 days.

Victims

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified