An IT glitch at Toyota Motor Corporation caused production to be halted for a day, but the auto giant stresses that the problem was not due to a cyberattack.

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Ransomware attacks have become a major cause of IT service disruptions for businesses, resulting in lost time, data and money. However, traditional infrastructure failures still pose a major threat.

Toyota Motor Corporation shut down more than a dozen factories in Japan for a day last month after a malfunction in its production ordering system, according to a press release. Toyota was quick to stress that the outage was due to technical difficulties and not a cyberattack, similar to the one that caused a day-long outage in 2022 when a supplier was attacked.

Toyota, which declined to comment further, said in a prepared statement that an error occurred during server maintenance on Aug. 27, resulting in insufficient hard disk space available for the database system. Backup servers, which were part of the production system, replicated the error and also became inaccessible. The system went down on Aug. 28 and was restored the next day, along with operations, after “data was transferred to systems with larger capacity.”

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These kinds of common outages have been around for as long as IT has been a profession. However, the escalating frequency of cyberattacks can lead the public and the C-suite to assume that downtime is due to a hack, said Dave Raffo, an analyst at Futurum Group. The damage a cyberattack can do to an organization legally, financially or reputationally requires effective notification. Companies investing in cyber defenses and reinforcements shouldn’t forget their backup basics, he added.

Information source: techtarget.com