American chipmaker Microchip Expertise Integrated 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 clients throughout a number of trade sectors, together with industrial, automotive, client, aerospace and protection, communications, and computing markets.
As a result of an incident, some Microchip Expertise manufacturing services function at diminished capability, affecting the corporate’s means to fulfill orders. Microchip Expertise additionally needed to take steps to handle the state of affairs, resembling shutting down some techniques and isolating the affected ones following the breach.
“On August 17, 2024, Microchip Expertise Integrated (the “Firm”) detected doubtlessly suspicious exercise involving its info know-how (“IT”) techniques. Upon detecting the problem, the Firm started taking steps to evaluate, comprise and remediate the possibly unauthorized exercise,” Microchip Expertise revealed in a SEC submitting on Tuesday.
“On August 19, 2024, the Firm decided that an unauthorized celebration disrupted the Firm’s use of sure servers and a few enterprise operations.”
Microchip Expertise is presently evaluating the extent and affect 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 affect of the incident aren’t but identified,” it added in in the present day’s submitting. “As of the date of this submitting, the Firm has not but decided whether or not the incident in all fairness more likely to materially affect 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. Nonetheless, no ransomware operation has claimed duty for the assault.
A Microchip Expertise spokesperson was not instantly accessible for remark when contacted by BleepingComputer earlier in the present day.