American chipmaker Microchip Expertise Included has disclosed {that a} cyberattack impacted its techniques over the weekend, disrupting operations throughout a number of manufacturing services.
Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, the corporate has roughly 123,000 prospects throughout a number of trade sectors, together with industrial, automotive, shopper, aerospace and protection, communications, and computing markets.
As a consequence of an incident, some Microchip Expertise manufacturing services function at diminished capability, affecting the corporate’s potential to fulfill orders. Microchip Expertise additionally needed to take steps to handle the state of affairs, similar to shutting down some techniques and isolating the affected ones following the breach.
“On August 17, 2024, Microchip Expertise Included (the “Firm”) detected doubtlessly suspicious exercise involving its data know-how (“IT”) techniques. Upon detecting the difficulty, the Firm started taking steps to evaluate, comprise and remediate the doubtless unauthorized exercise,” Microchip Expertise revealed in a SEC submitting on Tuesday.
“On August 19, 2024, the Firm decided that an unauthorized occasion disrupted the Firm’s use of sure servers and a few enterprise operations.”
Microchip Expertise is presently evaluating the extent and impression of the cyberattack with the help of exterior cybersecurity specialists. The corporate can be working to revive affected IT techniques and return to regular enterprise operations.
“Because the Firm’s investigation is ongoing, the complete scope, nature and impression of the incident should not but recognized,” it added in immediately’s submitting. “As of the date of this submitting, the Firm has not but decided whether or not the incident in all fairness prone to materially impression the Firm’s monetary situation or outcomes of operations.”
Whereas the corporate has not but disclosed the character of the incident, the SEC submitting suggests it was ransomware. Nevertheless, no ransomware operation has claimed accountability for the assault.
A Microchip Expertise spokesperson was not instantly obtainable for remark when contacted by BleepingComputer earlier immediately.