A Danish manufacturer of hearing aids and bone implants and hearing aid devices, with a branch in Szczecin, was attacked by cyber criminals, which resulted in a complete paralysis of the production line.

On the third of September, one of the company’s employees informed wszczecinie.pl portal that the employees had been released earlier, with a big question mark about the next working day. It had been speculated that the hacker attack on DGS originated from China and that once someone attacks a server in Denmark, all production in Europe is halted. However, at that moment, the director general of DGS Poland, according to the wszczecinie.pl portal, said that the company was struggling with network problems and did not confirm the suspected cyberattack.

More than a month after the incident, we now know that the attack used data encryption software, and the total damage, as issued in the company’s statement, is PLN 380 million. The losses relate to, among others, retail sales, and the company itself spent over PLN 29 million to remove the threat and restore systems to efficiency.