Hydro posts another update on the progress of its operation restart after the cyber attack

Hydro has posted another update on the progress the company made in securing safe operations across its businesses. The company says that with help of external experts and national security authorities, the in-house IT experts are working towards restoring the virus infected systems.

“Experts from Microsoft and other IT security partners have flown in to aid Hydro in taking all necessary actions in a systematic way to get business critical systems back in normal operation,” says Jo De Vliegher, Head of Information Systems.

“With a systematic approach our experts are step by step restoring business critical IT based functions to ensure stable production, serve our customers and limit financial impact, while always safeguarding our employee’s safety,” says CFO Eivind Kallevik.

The press update says that no safety incident has been reported as a result of the cyber-attack. Hydro is running most of its operations safe using manual processes.

Norway’s National Investigation Service (Kripos) is now looking at the matter and the police has started an investigation. The company has not given a timeline when it will completely restore all its operations. It has also not divulged any detail on the extent of operational and financial losses.

The Energy segment and Bauxite & Alumina segment are now running as normal. Primary Metal production is also running as usual with higher degree of manual operations. Rolled product segment has also started operating as normal leaving a few processes.

Extruded Solutions business is currently operating at 50 per cent of normal capacity. The business segment is working hard to start full operations as soon as possible to continue deliveries to the customers.