In the midst of the COVID-19 situation in March 2020, 10x Genomics faced an attempted ransomware attack which also involved the theft of certain company data,” the filing said. “The Company isolated the source of the attack and restored normal operations with no material day-to-day impact [or] ability to access its data.” Law enforcement and outside experts are working with the biotech firm in an ongoing investigation, officials said. It’s not clear if managed security service providers (MSSPs) are involved in the cyber kidnapping’s post-mortem processing.

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