Lasting Damage and a Search for Clues in Cyberattack
Companies that weren’t using best security practices were wiped out.”
At Mondelez, which makes products including Oreo cookies, Ritz Crackers
and Trident gum, it took less than 20 minutes for hackers to destroy data on thousands of servers, and to cause the company’s production facilities around the globe — including a Cadbury chocolate factory in the far reaches of Tasmania — to shut down.
In a statement, Mondelez said it believed that it had contained the issue and
that a “critical majority of the affected systems are up and running again.” The company said that it expected to incur one-time costs from the attack in its second and third quarters, but it reaffirmed its revenue outlook of “at least 1 percent growth.”
That was not the case at Reckitt Benckiser, a British maker of consumer goods.
On Thursday, the company was forced to trim its sales forecast for the year — from 3 percent growth
down to 2 percent — as a result of NotPetya’s impact on its manufacturing and distribution.
By NICOLE PERLROTHJULY 6, 2017
As investigators continue to gather clues about the cyberattacks
that hit computers around the world last week, some big companies and other organizations are still reckoning with the damage.
But collateral damage from the attack took down computers across the world, including major multinational companies that do business with Ukraine.
“We are working with leading industry professionals to bring these back in a graduated way when we are satisfied
that appropriate safeguards are in place to bring them online securely,” John Lovallo, a DLA Piper spokesman, said in a statement.