Garmin said the investigation is ongoing and the company is planning a multi-day maintenance window to address the cyber attack, which includes taking down its website, disabling the Garmin Connect app, disconnecting aviation database services and halting some production lines in Asia. It’s unclear whether or not any customer information was compromised.
A ransomware attack is designed to encrypt its victims’ computers and demand a ransom to open them up again.
Garmin customers have been unable to sync their devices to Garmin’s servers since Thursday. In addition, pilots have been unable to download Garmin’s aviation database to their Garmin airplane navigational systems.