Event description
A video of today’s accident at MetalliKO’s rolling mill appeared on YouTube, which quickly became the most watched clip in the region. The mobile phone footage shows how, due to an incorrectly set operating mode, a bar came flying off the rolls, landed on the factory floor and was squirming like a red-hot worm. The plant blames a hacker attack.
Consequences
1. Damage to company property
2. Enterprise disruptions and downtime
This has happened before
Microsoft
Hackers hit Norsk Hydro with ransomware. The company responded with transparency
The breach last March would ultimately affect all 35,000 Norsk Hydro employees across 40 countries, locking the files on thousands of servers and PCs. The financial impact would eventually approach $ 71 million. Production lines had stopped at some of Norsk Hydro’s 170 plants. Other facilities were switching from computer to manual operations.