Ray-Ban Owner Luxottica Reportedly Hit With Cyberattack
Italy-based eyewear and eyecare giant Luxottica has reportedly suffered a cyberattack that has led to the shutdown of operations in Italy and China.
Luxottica is the world’s largest eyewear company that employs over 80,000 people and generated 9.4 billion in revenue for 2019.
The company portfolio of eyeglasses brands contains well-known brands, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Ferrari, Michael Kors, Bulgari, Armani, Prada, Chanel, and Coach.
Luxottica also operates retail outlets such as Sunglass Hut and eyecare providers Pearle Vision, LensCrafters, and Eye Med.
Possible cyberattack impacts operations
On Friday evening, people began to report that the web sites for Ray-Ban, Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, EyeMed, and Pearle Vision were not working, and wondered if they were breached.
In addition, Luxottica portals one.luxotrica.com and university.luxottica.com are currently showing maintenance messages stating the sites are under maintenance.
“OneLuxottica is temporarily unavailable. We are working to bring it live as soon as possible.”
Today, Italian media is reporting that the IT systems for Luxottica offices in Agordo and Sedico, Italy, were suffering “computer system failure.” As employees could not work, they were told to go home via an SMS text.
Union sources later confirmed to Italian media Ansa that the employees were sent home due to “serious IT problems.”
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Furthermore, cybersecurity intelligence firm Bad Packets has told BleepingComputer that Luxottica had a Citrix ADX controller device vulnerable to the critical CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix devices.
This vulnerability is popular among ransomware threat actors. When exploited, the vulnerability provides access to a network and credentials that can be used to spread further through the network.
A recent ransomware attack on a German hospital that led to a patient’s death was caused by the attackers exploiting this same vulnerability to gain access to the network.
While there has been no official statement about these outages, from the media reports, Luxottica likely suffered a cyberattack, with ransomware, the likely culprit.
BleepingComputer has contacted Luxottica for information about these outages and has not heard back.
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