The manufacturing company with nearly 20,000 employees worldwide recently became
the victim of a cyber attack.
Crown Equipment Corporation in New Bremen is temporarily shut down
because of this attack.
And two news reporter, Grace Hewitt is joining us here
live in the studio digging deeper on the attack and
what comes next.
Grace, who do officials say is actually responsible for this
attack?
Well, the corporation says that who's responsible for this attack
is an international cyber criminal organization.
And the company says they are currently working with cybersecurity
experts and federal authorities to figure out what to do
next.
And they have not said if any personal data was
leaked.
Crown Industries is one of the world's largest material handling
companies with 14 locations worldwide.
Since the attack on its facility in New Bremen, they've
been working around the clock to investigate the system and
resolve the matter.
In response to the attack, the company says in part
quote, Crown reported that it's ongoing security measures played a
key role in helping to limit the effects of the
attack.
Crown is also working closely with its customers to help
reduce the effect the incident may have had on their
operations.
Sean Waldman, CEO of Secure Cyber Defense, monitors 50 companies
globally and knows about dealing with hackers.
He says the reason this happens is because sometimes companies
don't practice for this type of threat.
They don't follow like some of the basic things like
having a good backup plan, making sure that you've got
good backups.
A lot of companies aren't adhering to some of the
new cyber standards that are out.
Waldman says in dealing with a cyber attack like this,
companies always want to follow three steps.
Notify the insurance company, consult an outside provider and involve
federal authorities.
But most importantly, stay prepared.
Having those written procedures down on what you, you know,
what your protection is, what you're going to do, make
sure that you have like business continuity plans.
The best prescription is being transparent.
So be transparent, be upfront, be commutative, and just let
people know what's going on in the path to resolution.
And several employees at Crown actually tipped us off about
this attack.
And we will continue to follow Crown's progress as they
try and recover.
Live in studio.
Grace Hewitt.
2 News.