The Australia-based beverage giant behind beer brands Little Creatures, XXXX, Tooheys and James Squire has been hit by a second cyber attack after its manufacturing and IT systems were crippled by hackers demanding a ransom of reportedly $1 million last week.
The initial attack caused multiple supply issues across its business and has shaken the company, which employs approximately 7000 people across Australia. It comes as its dairy and drinks business, which employs 2300 workers, is the subject of a $600 million takeover bid from Chinese dairy giant Mengniu, part-owned by Chinese state-owned food processor COFCO.The Foreign Investment Review Board is assessing the bid after the ACCC gave the offer the green light in February.
Across its Australian and New Zealand adult beverages businesses, it said it continued "to have limited visibility of our products in our systems. We're working to bring our breweries back online as soon as possible, hoping to get a number of our breweries back up and running very soon"
bengrubb May not be second attack but a repeat of the first. This happens when you recover systems from backups that have been infected for some time. The bad stuff could be sitting in the systems for months without detection.
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