International advertising and marketing giant Omnicom suffers ‘suspicious’ IT incident

Omnicom, one particular of the world’s major advertising and promotion companies, took some of its IT devices offline more than the “past week” owing to “suspicious exercise,” the company verified to CyberScoop Wednesday.

Many employees influenced by the outage mentioned that they have been not able to obtain their digital non-public network assistance, and some could not entry e-mail. The employees worked at different Omnicom subsidiaries.

“Omnicom is in the method of reviewing our VPN methods that ended up taken offline as a precaution immediately after detecting suspicious exercise that we swiftly isolated and responded to,” Joanne Trout, main communications officer at Omnicom, wrote in an e mail to CyberScoop. “We have introduced most methods back on the web and are performing with our information technology workforce to make certain all methods are immediately and securely restored.”

Omnicom declined to say how several persons were being affected by the outage.

Omnicom, a U.S.-based international firm, generates $14.29 billion a 12 months, making it the 2nd-greatest global marketing firm by some estimates. Omnicom and its subsidiaries characterize 5,000 customers in far more than 70 countries, which include McDonald’s, Apple, Unilever and Johnson & Johnson.

Omnicom Media Team was hit by a cyberattack last year that disrupted sections of its IT networks, AdAge claimed. The firm advised AdAge that no details was at threat of compromise.