Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following 'extensive cyberattack'

Norwegian mining and recycling giant TOMRA says it has isolated tech systems as it deals with an "extensive cyberattack." TOMRA has multiple divisions that focus on areas including waste and recycling solutions, metal sorting systems, mining machine systems and food sorting equipment. It turned over $1.2 billion in calendar …

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet their IT dept consists of 1 guy, running a huge estate.

The shareholders are happy though

[Caver_Dave]

1 guy and four layers of IT management

[Anonymous Coward]

What a load of rubbish

I love using their reverse vending machines.

Old bottles go in, cash goes to an animal charity.

I buy more bottles (beer).

The circular economy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Turned over $1.2 billion in calendar 2022

Turned over $1.2 billion in calendar 2022 and the CEO spends more on his dinner than pays the I.T staff /s

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Turned over $1.2 billion in calendar 2022

I worked there previously managing the donations on the machines. There are 2 guys in IT. Thats it. They dont have security training at all.

Security is a joke. All machines have the same login and password for remote work. No VPN needed.

Just IP:80, no encryption.

Everything is hosted on one central server. No backups and no failover. Not even for connectivity.

This was a disaster waiting to happen.

[Anonymous Coward]

Was the point of entry a windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

Extensive attack

We use Windows extensively throughout the business