Sibanye Stillwater, a diversified mining company based in Johannesburg, announced that the release of its half-year financial results will be postponed by two weeks, from the original scheduled date, to September 12th.

This delay is a result of a cyberattack on the company’s IT systems, which caused limited disruptions to its global operations. The company reported the cyberattack on July 11th and has since made significant progress in restoring its systems.

“Although the cyber-attack has had limited impact on our core operations, it caused temporary system outages which resulted in the implementation of back-up manual processes on certain systems at the operations,” Sibanye said in a statement.

Despite the fact that Sibanye’s mining and extraction operations encountered minimal disruption, the Columbus metallurgical complex situated at the U.S. PGM operations has experienced certain short-term operational delays as a direct consequence of IT outages.

This has affected the smelting of underground concentrate and the recycling of spent autocatalysts, Sibanye said, adding the built-up stockpiles were expected to be processed “in due course”.

Sibanye extracts platinum and gold from mines located in South Africa. Additionally, the company runs a palladium mine in the state of Montana, USA, and has ongoing projects involving lithium, nickel, and zinc in Finland, France, and Australia.