Ingram Micro, a U.S. technology distributing giant and managed services provider, said on Monday a ransomware attack is the cause of an ongoing outage at the company.
The hack began on Thursday, after which the company’s website and much of its network went down. Late on Saturday, the company said in a brief statement that it was working to restore systems so it can begin processing orders again. California-based Ingram Micro is one of the world’s largest technology distributors, shipping tech and hardware to companies around the globe. It is also a managed service provider for its customers’ clouds, effectively acting as an outsourced IT department for smaller corporate customers.
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Source: TechCrunch News
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