GARMIN INTERNATIONAL

Garmin's July 2020 cyberattack was remembered as a ransomware outage, but the more durable lesson is about service infrastructure hidden inside consumer devices. Fitness users could keep recording workouts, pilots could keep using installed avionics, and marine and outdoor customers still owned their hardware. Yet synchronization, aviation database access, support, websites, developer channels and status communication all depended on centralized systems Garmin had to restore, explain and trust again.