Halliburton confirms a cyberattack forced it to take its systems offline | CNN Business

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Halliburton confirmed on Friday that it was hit by a cyberattack that forced the major oilfield services company to take systems offline.

In a filing, Halliburton said it became aware on Wednesday that an “unauthorized third party gained access to certain of its systems.”

Halliburton said it immediately “activated its cybersecurity response plan and launched an investigation internally with the support of external advisers to assess and remediate the unauthorized activity.”

That response included “proactively taking certain systems offline to help protect them and notifying law enforcement,” Halliburton said.

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