Ingram Micro Scrambling to Restore Systems After Ransomware Attack

The IT products and services giant did not say how the intrusion occurred or whether any data was stolen from its systems.

IT distributor giant Ingram Micro has confirmed over the weekend that a ransomware attack was responsible for a widespread outage over its services.

One of the largest distributors of IT products and services, Ingram Micro was forced to take certain systems offline on Friday afternoon, in response to the incident.

This caused widespread outages across the company’s services, preventing customers from accessing management portals or placing orders, according to multiple Reddit posts.

On Saturday, the tech giant confirmed that the outage was caused by ransomware, saying it was scrambling to restore the affected systems and services.

“Ingram Micro recently identified ransomware on certain of its internal systems. Promptly after learning of the issue, the company took steps to secure the relevant environment, including proactively taking certain systems ...