JBS SA said it was hit by a cyberattack, disrupting operations for the world’s biggest meatpacker on multiple continents.
Brazil-based JBS said the attack had affected systems in Australia and in the U.S., where the company is the largest beef processor and a top pork supplier. JBS said that after identifying the incursion on Sunday, it suspended affected systems and was working to get operations back online. Some of the biggest U.S. meat-processing plants halted processing operations after the attack, according to worker representatives and notices shared with JBS employees, including facilities in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas. Representatives for JBS had no further comment on its plant operations.
The attack on JBS, which sold $52.4 billion worth of meat and other products globally in 2020, is the latest cyberattack to demonstrate the rising and potentially costly risk to corporate operations posed by such incursions. Such attacks can affect daily life in the U.S. A cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline Co. last month shut down the fuel supplier’s
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