Nearly All Systems Offline for Weeks at Global Forklift Manufacturer
INCIDENT
Crown Equipment Corporation, the world’s fourth largest forklift manufacturer, has resumed global manufacturing after a cyberattack that took nearly all of its systems offline for several weeks. Since June 8 the company faced significant operational disruption. On July 4 Crown says its 24 global manufacturing plants were back in operation after being suspended on June 10.
Crown confirmed that the multi-week operations disruption resulted from a social engineering attack by an international cybercrime group.
Incident Date
June 8, 2024
Location
Estimated Cost
Unknown, Global operations suspended >3 weeks
Victims
Type of Malware
Threat Source
No threat source identified