Cyber attack on Luxottica, what happened
Hacker attack on Luxottica, production stopped and employees at home. "We did not detect any access or theft of user and consumer information," the company explained today.
The eyewear colossus founded by Leonardo Del Vecchio under cyber attack. On 21 September, Luxottica's production and logistics plants stopped at 11 o'clock due to a cyber attack.
After 48 hours, the situation seems to be back under control.
The inconvenience caused by an attempted hacking of the Luxottica servers has returned, the Gazzettino wrote today. “We have not detected any access or theft of information from users and consumers,” the company explained to the Venetian newspaper.
The cyber attack comes a few days after the announcement that Facebook and EssilorLuxottica (multinational formed from the merger between the French Essilor and Luxottica) will work together to develop the next generation of smart glasses.
THE COMPUTER ATTACK
Luxottica was the subject of a cyber attack by a 'malware' identified and isolated without damage to the company's IT infrastructure. Sources close to the company made it known Monday afternoon to the LaPresse agency, according to which there was currently no access or theft of information from users and consumers.
EMPLOYEES AT HOME
However, on Monday the workers of the Agordo and Sedico offices, in the Belluno area, were set free, given the impossibility of carrying out any operation. Union sources had reported this, reported by Ansa .
THE COMPANY'S COMMENT
“The cyber attack of the weekend by a malware was fortunately identified and isolated without damage to the infrastructure”, explained Luxottica today according to the Gazzettino: “ We did not detect any access or theft of information from users and consumers. In less than 24 hours, Luxottica created the system to annihilate the hacker and the network of the servers concerned was reclaimed ”.
Work activities are progressively returning to normal in the factories and in the Milan office, the sources added.
REPERCUSSIONS ALSO IN CHINA
"The blackout – which apparently reverberated even in the most distant offshoots of the Luxottica empire in China – is presumably related to a ransomware, or a malicious software that unduly encrypts files and makes the information assets of a company ”, explained the expert Umberto Rapetto on Infosec news.
THE CONSEQUENCES ACCORDING TO THE EXPERT RAPETTO
"The effect of the fraudulent encryption is dramatic." Rapetto continued. “The illegibility of vital information nails decision-making processes, blocks production lines, blinds warehouse management, stops shipment of goods, makes new orders inadmissible, clears accounting, transforms employees, customers and suppliers into unknowns. The continuation of the "inconveniences" suggests that the probable feral transformation of data into ramshackle sequences of incomprehensible bits concerned not only a few workstations, but the entire computer system and presumably also everything that was stored in the so-called "cloud" ( or the resources made available by third parties to ensure the continuation of activities in the event of local accidents) and which should have guaranteed a rapid restart that would not have taken place ".
ESSILOR HIT IN MARCH
As Wired recalled, “in March, the other side of the eyewear multinational, the French Essilor, was targeted by a cyber attack, hit by ransomware that made corporate servers inaccessible. On that occasion, Luxottica remained unharmed as its network is separated from that of Essilor ”.
RECENT RANSOMWARE ATTACKS
This is not a one-time episode. Two weeks ago, in fact, the Roman university of Tor Vergata also suffered a cyber attack. Those responsible have encrypted the data of teachers and students and exfiltrated sensitive information and confidential documents of scientific research such as that to combat Covid-19.
Finally, it should be remembered the recent hacker attack on the university hospital in Dusseldorf, Germany , which may have resulted in the death of a woman. The patient was unable to be hospitalized and was sent to another facility upon arrival at the emergency room, which was closed following the cyber violation.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/attacco-cibernetico-a-luxottica-che-cosa-e-successo/ on Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:58:42 +0000.