Swiss Drug Manufacturer Siegfried Shuts Down Production after Cyberattack
INCIDENT
The Siegfried Group suFfered a cyber attack shortly before Pentecost. THe Swiss company shut down production at multiple sites, cut off network connections, and scoured its information technology systems. Among other things, Siegfried packages the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
As a result of the attack, there will be certain volume and revenue shortfalls in the first half of the year. Based on the results of the forensic investigations, which are well advanced, the Siegfried Group continues to assume that no sensitive customer data were affected by the incident.
Incident Date
May 21, 2021
Location
Estimated Cost
Shutdown operations and impacted production
Victims
Type of Malware
No Malware identified
Threat Source
No threat source identified
Industries
Impacts
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