Lasting Damage and a Search for Clues in Cyberattack<br />Companies that weren’t using best security practices were wiped out." At Mondelez, which makes products including Oreo cookies, Ritz Crackers<br />and Trident gum, it took less than 20 minutes for hackers to destroy data on thousands of servers, and to cause the company’s production facilities around the globe — including a Cadbury chocolate factory in the far reaches of Tasmania — to shut down.<br />Although the security agency has never acknowledged<br />that its hacking tools were stolen — let alone used in the two major attacks — many security experts worry that there are other agency tools ready to be used by hackers.<br />In a statement, Mondelez said it believed that it had contained the issue and<br />that a "critical majority of the affected systems are up and running again." The company said that it expected to incur one-time costs from the attack in its second and third quarters, but it reaffirmed its revenue outlook of "at least 1 percent growth." That was not the case at Reckitt Benckiser, a British maker of consumer goods.<br />By NICOLE PERLROTHJULY 6, 2017<br />As investigators continue to gather clues about the cyberattacks<br />that hit computers around the world last week, some big companies and other organizations are still reckoning with the damage.<br />Like the WannaCry attacks that spread around the world in May, the attackers behind the episode<br />last week used hacking tools that exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software.