Last week, Gamin suffered a massive outage that not only prevented its multisport athletes from uploading activities to its servers, but also took down its call center, email system, online chat, and even its flyGarmin aviation service. Rumor has it that the outage was due to a ransomware attack, but it took Garmin five days to acknowledge that it was indeed a cyber attack.
Garmin’s Recent Outage Revealed Gaping Holes in Its Security and Communication