As reported by the German portal tagesschau.de, a faulty software update from Crowdstrike caused chaos last weekend not only in hospitals, banks and airports. Disruptions also affected industrial enterprises. One of them was the John Deere plant in Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg, where, among others, 6M series tractors. The factory had to stop production.
Strangely enough, the American company Crowdstrike deals with cybersecurity, and its software is designed to protect companies against hacker attacks. Errors in program updates affected Windows devices. As a result, production at the John Deere plant in Mannheim was suspended on Friday and started on Monday.
As the company informed the German media, the system failure did not directly affect the production line, but the decision to stop the machines was made as a preventive measure because it was not known whether a hacker attack had occurred. Recently, agricultural machinery manufacturers in Europe have fallen victim to cyberattacks several times.
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