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A ransomware attack that forced the temporary shutdown of the JBS meat-packing plant at Brooks should serve as a wake-up call for the food and agriculture sectors, experts said Tuesday.
The Brooks facility, along with JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S., was idled Sunday after a cyberattack on some of the company’s servers, the Brazilian-owned meat processing giant said in a Monday statement. All shifts for unionized workers at Brooks were cancelled until mid-afternoon Tuesday, when production was able to be restarted, according to the union that represents 2,500 employees at the southern Alberta plant.
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Ataque cibernético paralisa unidades da JBS nos EUA e Canadá gazetadopovo.com.br - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazetadopovo.com.br Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
JBS, a Sao Paulo-based company with operations in 15 countries, announced on Sunday that they had been hacked. Their Canadian and Australian facilities have been affected so far.