Boston Scientific has suffered a cyber attack that started on a Wednesday morning, halting production for at least three days, impacting product ordering, and is now expected to materially affect...

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        "excerpt": "This happened to Olympus\n\n too around 3 years ago. Took them 2 whole weeks to get their shit together. (Not surprising because they, in fact, do not have their shit together ever).",
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        "excerpt": "I heard a lot about this… I even asked someone that works there I can confirm from all reports, it’s not good. 👍🏼\n\n Not near as bad as Stryker\n\n ’s hacking situation though",
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        "excerpt": "Only impacted future ordering of product. The hope is for 3 weeks of complete recovery. Employees are typically encouraged to have atleast two weeks of product on hand\n\n . For the most part its business as usual.",
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      "[post] Anyone hear any gossip around the status of this? Impacts? How long it will take for them to get operational again?",
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      "[comment u/Fearless-Fart] It started at 6am Wednesday morning, all orders placed were not being filled as of yesterday at 10am.",
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