World’s largest meat supplier JBS suffers cyberattack
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A cyberattack on JBS, the largest meat producer globally, has forced the shutdown of some of world’s largest abattoirs, and there are signs that the closures are spreading.
JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the US — which together handle 22,500 cattle a day — have halted processing after a weekend attack on the company’s computer networks, according to JBS posts on Facebook, labour unions and employees. Those outages alone have wiped out nearly a fifth of America’s production. Slaughter operations across Australia were also down, according to a trade group. One of Canada’s largest beef plants was idled for a second day...
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