{"id":1789047,"date":"2020-07-25T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789047"},"modified":"2020-07-27T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:45:31","slug":"garmins-online-services-hit-by-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/garmins-online-services-hit-by-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin\u2019s Online Services Hit by Ransomware Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garmin\u2019s online services have been hit by a ransomware attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/07\/25\/garmin-outage-ransomware-sources\/\"><em>TechCrunch<\/em> reports<\/a>, with outages still ongoing as of this writing. \u201cThe incident began late Wednesday and continued through the weekend, causing disruption to the company\u2019s online services for millions of users, including Garmin Connect, which syncs user activity and data to the cloud and other devices. The attack also took down flyGarmin, its aviation navigation and route-planning service.\u201d Email and call centres are also reportedly out of operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garmin\u2019s online services have been hit by a ransomware attack, TechCrunch reports, with outages still ongoing as of this writing. \u201cThe incident began late Wednesday and continued through the weekend, causing disruption to the company\u2019s&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/garmins-online-services-hit-by-ransomware-attack\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,121],"tags":[269,1199],"class_list":["post-1789047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","category-industry","tag-garmin","tag-outages","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789064,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/garmins-slow-recovery-from-last-weeks-ransomware-attack\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789047,"position":0},"title":"Garmin\u2019s Slow Recovery from Last Week\u2019s Ransomware Attack","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Engadget reports that Garmin\u2019s services are starting to come back online after last week\u2019s ransomware attack: [I]t looks like things are slowly but surely coming back to life. Yesterday, activity-tracking app Strava confirmed that it was again able to send workout data to Garmin\u2019s Connect service. [...] But a quick\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GPS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787358,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/garmin-announces-the-overlander-an-offroading-gps-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789047,"position":1},"title":"Garmin Announces the Overlander, An Offroading GPS Receiver","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Garmin announced the Overlander GPS receiver today. It's designed for off-road, off-grid navigation, with maps that include public lands boundaries and 4x4 trails (in the Americas, at least), sensors to detect roll and pitch angles, and other features suitable for mucking around in a Jeep or ATV. Costs $700. 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Strava claims that Garmin is violating Strava\u2019s patents relating to heatmaps and segments, and also says Garmin\u2019s new developer guidelines require the Garmin logo to be present in every single post and image: \u201cWe\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GPS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2722,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/delorme-atlas-and-gazetteer-line-to-continue\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789047,"position":3},"title":"DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer Line to Continue","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Ever since Garmin announced it was purchasing DeLorme last February, there has been considerable anxiety in Maine over the possibility that the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer would be discontinued. Everyone in Maine can now relax: Garmin has announced that it's keeping DeLorme's entire Atlas and Gazetteer line of paper atlases.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Industry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":795,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/garmin-is-buying-delorme\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789047,"position":4},"title":"Garmin Is Buying DeLorme","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Garmin has announced that it is buying Maine-based GPS manufacturer DeLorme. \"Garmin will retain most of the associates of DeLorme and will continue operations at its existing location in Yarmouth, Maine following the completion of the acquisition. 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