As of: February 14, 2024, 2:23 p.m
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The Varta logo can be seen on Varta AG batteries.
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After a cyber attack, the battery manufacturer Varta is shutting down production - for security reasons, it is said.
What happens next is not yet known.
Ellwangen - Production at the battery manufacturer Varta continues to stand still 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 is in deep crisis
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.
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.
People are therefore looking forward to the presentation of the 2023 annual report at the end of March - and whether more needs to be reduced.
(wal/dpa)