Australian Meat Production disrupted by JBS Cyberattack
In Australia meat production workers had no work for straight second day, Minister from government informed it may take several days before processing work returns to normal
JBS is Australia’s largest meat and food processing company, with 47 facilities across the country. 11,000 workers are employed by JBS.
JBS USA informed it is an “organized cybersecurity attack” which happened on sunday.
“The company’s backup servers were not affected and it is actively working with an Incident Response firm to restore its systems as soon as possible,” the statement said.
JBS staff came to know about attack on Monday.
Most of the production is exported outside the country. Hence, majority of consignment are halted.
“We had to send them up on Sunday afternoon and then we got the message in the morning that they’d have to cancel the train because the meat works was going to be shutting for an indefinite amount of time,” Queensland cattle rancher Colin Baker informed ABC.
“We had a wasted day . . . because mustering the cattle, sorting them out and then trucking them up there and then we had to bring them home today and let them all go again,” Baker added.
