Editor s Note: The JBS meatpacking plant in Hyrum was among facilities affected by the global closure referenced in this article. Parts of the Hyrum plant were shut down Tuesday, and it was full operational Wednesday.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) â The world s largest meat processing company is getting back online after production around the world was disrupted by a cyberattack just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline.
Brazil s JBS SA said late Tuesday that it had made significant progress in dealing with the cyberattack and expected the vast majority of its plants to be operating on Wednesday.
Meat Processing Grinds to Halt After Cybersecurity Attack
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The U.S. headquarters of meat supplier JBS in Greeley, Colorado.
The world s largest meat supplier, JBS, says an organized cybersecurity attack has led it to shut down servers in North America and Australia, and experts say a prolonged outage could have a noticeable impact on the global supply of meat.
The Sao Paulo-based company has yet to disclose if the attack involved ransomware.
On Monday, JBS s branch in the U.S. said it shut down servers in North America and Australia following the attack on its computer systems, which it detected Sunday. It did not describe what caused the problem or if it involved file-encrypting ransomware.
Read more about World s biggest meat supplier is latest prey to cybersecurity attack on Business Standard. The attack sidelined two shifts and halted processing at one of Canada s largest meatpacking plants, while in Australia the company canceled all beef and lamb kills across the nation
US News: CHICAGO: The White House said on Tuesday that Brazil's JBS SA has informed the US government that a ransomware attack against the company that has dis.