Lasting Damage and a Search for Clues in Cyberattack<br />Companies that weren’t using best security practices were wiped out.”<br />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 />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.”<br />That was not the case at Reckitt Benckiser, a British maker of consumer goods.<br />On Thursday, the company was forced to trim its sales forecast for the year — from 3 percent growth<br />down to 2 percent — as a result of NotPetya’s impact on its manufacturing and distribution.<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 />But collateral damage from the attack took down computers across the world, including major multinational companies that do business with Ukraine.<br />“We are working with leading industry professionals to bring these back in a graduated way when we are satisfied<br />that appropriate safeguards are in place to bring them online securely,” John Lovallo, a DLA Piper spokesman, said in a statement.
