Mizuno, a sporting goods brand, has been affected by a ransomware attack, resulting in dropped calls and delayed orders.
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The whole system is down and currently no one can even order anything (baseball, golf, softball, volleyball, swimming, training, etc. products). They are also currently working on getting the system back up and running in the shortest time possible, but it could be later than that.
Mizuno is a Japanese manufacturer of sporting goods and sportswear with more than 3,800 employees and offices in Asia, Europe and North America.
The company sells a variety of sporting goods, most famously golf clubs, running sneakers and baseball equipment.
According to officials, Mizuno was hit by a ransomware attack on its corporate network in the United States over the weekend of February 4.
This cyber-attack caused major disruptions to our business, including dropped calls, delays in shipping products, and website glitches.
Attack causes delay in orders
Customers began to notice the outage when the phone system was disabled and a banner appeared on the website warning of order delays.
mizuno is currently experiencing a system failure. Orders may be delayed
and is displayed at the top of the mizunousa.com website.
Customers say they have been told that their orders could be delayed up to a month because Mizuno failed to print shipping labels.
The ransomware attack came at the worst possible time for Mizuno, as the company had just released the Mizuno Pro 221, 223 and 225 irons on February 3, and many customers had pre-ordered and were eagerly waiting for them.
Mizuno’s resellers have also been affected, and are unable to access Mizuno’s B2B site, Direct Connect, which resellers use to place orders.
At this time, the type of ransomware behind this attack is unknown, but if the company does not pay the ransom, we will find out at a later date if the hackers have released the stolen data.
It continues to be bad for the sports industry, with the San Francisco Forty-Niners confirming that they have been attacked by the BlackByte ransomware.
While the details of the attack have not been disclosed, the threat actors have already begun leaking invoices that they claim were stolen during the attack.
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