On Sunday, March 19, parts specialist TVH determined that it was the target of an organized cybersecurity attack. The attack allowed hackers to partially encrypt the company’s systems. As a result, TVH experienced problems accepting, processing, and sending orders via its web platform.
TVH took immediate action, suspending affected systems, notifying authorities, and activating internal and external experts to resolve the situation.
After a TVH investigation of the cyber attack indicated that cybercriminals had access to data. Their investigation is still ongoing, but so far, they have not found any indication that the data is public.
In a statement, TVH said they are very serious about the confidentiality of its employees and their business partners’ data and understand that this might be of concern to them. 3rd-party cyber forensic experts continue to thoroughly investigate this attack and TVH will make updates when they have further insight.
Secondly, TVH believes there is good news as well. After an extensive investigation by 3rd-party cyber forensic experts, they did not find any indication that other connected networks were affected by this attack.
“We continue to work hard on the recovery of our systems to be operational as soon as possible. We’re also taking in the meantime many preventive measures to reinforce our IT environment to the maximum” the statement continued. “We are confident that we will come back stronger than ever.”
