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Production at the battery manufacturer Varta, which belongs to the Austrian investor Michael Tojner, remains at a standstill after a hacker attack. A spokesman for the company from Ellwangen in Baden-Württemberg told the German Press Agency on Wednesday afternoon upon request. The five production sites, three of them in Germany and one each in Romania and Indonesia, are affected. Likewise the administration.
Varta announced on Tuesday evening that parts of the IT systems had been the target of a cyber attack. The company then shut down its IT systems and therefore production itself for security reasons. The extent of the damage cannot yet be named, it said. The spokesman was initially unable to say when production would start again.
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The company was recently in the red. Varta was forced to restructure in the spring of last year and announced the elimination of around 800 jobs worldwide as a result of a savings program.
Information on the extent of the impact was not initially possible, the listed company said on Tuesday evening in Ellwangen. It is still unclear whether any damage was caused. Normal operations should be restored “as quickly as possible,” it said. The Varta shares lost 5.6 percent shortly after the news became known.
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