Strauss Borrelli PLLC, a leading data breach law firm, is investigating The MathWorks, Inc. regarding its recent cybersecurity incident. The MathWorks cybersecurity incident may impact the privacy of sensitive personal information belonging to an undetermined number of individuals.
ABOUT THE MATHWORKS, INC.:
MathWorks is a software developer based in Massachusetts. Founded in 1984, MathWorks offers two main product families to assist engineers and scientists, MATLAB and Simulink.2,3 MATLAB is MathWorks’ programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation, and Simulink is a block diagram environment used to design systems with multidomain models, simulate before moving to hardware, and deploy without writing code.4 Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, MathWorks has 34 global locations and employs more than 6,500 individuals.3
WHAT HAPPENED?
On May 26, 2025, MathWorks announced that it had experienced a ransomware attack. According to the application status page on its website, several MathWorks applications were experiencing issues on May 18, 2025.1 Updates over the following days added affected applications and noted which had been restored, with the list of affected MathWorks applications totaling Add-On Explorer, Careers at MathWorks, Cloud Center, Cody, Downloads, File Exchange, License Center, MathWorks.com, MathWorks Store, MATLAB and Simulink Course Schedule, MathWorks Account, MATLAB Answers, MATLAB Grader, MATLAB Mobile, MATLAB Online, and ThingSpeak.1 As of May 28, 2025, MathWorks is continuing to investigate the issue, and has neither publicly disclosed the nature of the cybersecurity incident nor whether it resulted in a data breach. A link to the outage updates that MathWorks posted to its website is below.
If you believe that you have been impacted by the MathWorks cybersecurity incident:
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