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I struggle to imagine what non-segregated resource would be so central as to affect their customer-facing app platform, internal email (or maybe mail gateways), and call center. Maybe DNS got hosed? I mean pretty impressive ransomware if it swept across the company that far and wide, crossing so many network boundaries and resource types so quickly. Maybe accounts/control being held for ransom instead of storage encr…
When I worked there, the entire internet for the campus went down. It took down the Garmin website and everything else Garmin. The culprit? Everyone was streaming music and/or videos. Everything shared the same internet pipe and streaming music starved out essential business functions. The next day all streaming services were blocked, and it was made clear we were being monitored for excess internet usage. Thus began…
Also, WHAT company of this size would try to save on toilet paper. Are you kidding me?