WannaCry virus caused serious damage to Apple division

One of the factories for the production of parts for smartphones Apple was seriously affected by the WannaCry virus. We are talking about the representative office of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which manufactures chipsets for future "apple models."

Insidious computer virus WannaСry more than once caused significant damage to the computer networks of major brands. Thousands of computer scientists all over the world are puzzled over how to defeat him, but so far no one has succeeded in doing this.

Infection on the territory of TSMC occurred in early August, and as a result, the plant had to be stopped for several hours. Since the units were hit not in one, but in several cities (Taichung, Hsinchu and Tainan), it took several days to fix the problem. Only on August 7, the production assets of the enterprise began to work again.

According to the company's management, the infection occurred at the time of installing the new software, an operational error was made that allowed the virus to enter the system.The breach in the security system was destroyed as soon as possible, and now, experts believe, such a failure is impossible in principle.

A simple few days is a serious problem for enterprises of this level. To meet the deadlines for order fulfillment for Apple, the manufacturer will have to incur serious additional costs associated with increasing the intensity of the workflow, as well as postpone the deadlines for fulfilling its obligations under other agreements.