It’ll be great! they said,
Australian and North American units of the world’s largest meat works were hit over the weekend by an organised cyber attack on its information systems, Brazil’s JBS SA said in a statement.
The attack caused its Australian operations to shut down on Monday. The company said it was working to resolve the incident.
“On Sunday, May 30, JBS USA determined that it was the target of an organised cybersecurity attack, affecting some of the servers supporting its North American and Australian IT systems,” it said in a statement released Monday afternoon, U.S. time.
“Resolution of the incident will take time, which may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers.”
The attack shut down operations across several Australian states, JBS Australia Chief Executive Officer Brent Eastwood told industry news website Beefcentral on Sunday, at which time he was not able to say how long the stoppage would last.
The world’s largest meatpacker has operations in Canada and the United States, which on Monday marked the U.S. Memorial Day public holiday.
Australian meat processing operations would be impossible without normal access to IT and internet systems, according to the Beefcentral report. JBS’s Primo Smallgoods business in Queensland state has also been affected, the report said.
Some of the immediate challenges presented since the breach was discovered on the weekend include what happens to thousands of chilled carcases from cattle slaughtered on Friday, that have yet to be boned-out.
The company has provided no further comment today, but Beef Central understands attempts will be made to bone those bodies out tomorrow using manual record keeping, documentation and sortation. At some sites, including JBS Beef City, many of those ‘stranded’ carcases are high-value Wagyu being serviced killed for other supply chains. […]
Comments in the company statement published above, suggesting that “resolution of the incident will take time,” hardly add to confidence that operations will recommence in coming days.
Having said that, the direct impact of the cyber-security breach is yet to be seen in the company’s US beef, pork and chicken operations, because of international time differences, and the fact that yesterday (Monday) was a national Memorial Day public holiday in the US. More will be learned about operational decisions and/or plant closures in the US from tomorrow.
Compounding the challenges, email and telephone communication with the company continues to be impacted by the IT breach.
h/t Ed
This will only get worse.
Cyber attacks aka hacking are often not big brained genius kids coding, coding coding. They are crooks inducing employees to give up passwords and entry procedures.
As socialist memes work more deeply into the body politic no employer will be able to trust his employees and many employees will be unworthy of trust. We’ve already seen the complete corruption of big tech and big entertainment by the left.
Who’s next?
Personally I think Biden minions did it. They are trying to get us to give up meat after all. What better way to get us to try insects and lab grown meat and such than by cutting off the supply.
Well the standard operation seems to be give the ceo’s millions in bonus’s because they got rid of some low level employees and reward the bosses for being so brilliant.
Fear not.
The Canadian solution will abide.
The “health Inspection agents” will just change the expiration date on the meat.
Whats a few extra days hanging on the chain?
Might even improve the product..
Maggie Trudeau ate meat that was hanging for 60 years. Look what it did to her.
Arty for the win! 😀
For the win! 🙂 !!
Arty, I had to laugh.
I was at a meeting 20 years or more ago where one of our IT guy said ‘anything you care about, don’t connect it to the internet”. You could almost hear the guffaws around the room. He should have got a bonus for that.
LOL! You guys are a bunch of worry warts! This is nothing a few governmentbucks can’t fix!
Remember this one? Fixed I tell you, despite the naysayers! Indeed some of SDA’s former contributes even helped with the fix!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/05/y2k.guardiananalysispage
Isn’t it about time that we take “Animal Rights” criminals seriously? Like with some SERIOUS jail time!?
Yes, “automation” is a significant part of this story … but LOOK at what the Automation Terrorists are targeting … Oil/gas and meat. These eco-Terrorists must be caught, and jailed for 25 years (at least).
Caught and fed through a meat grinder.
Everyone note, Beyond Meat still going strong.
Warren Buffet owns a lot of railway stock. He also funds all the pipeline protests in the world.
You thought not being a vegan would remain a “choice”?
FYI, when you find a USB stick in the parking lot, don’t “plug it in so I can see who dropped it, and return it to them”. You are such a kind person.
Why the hell do we allow this shit to happen?
Agreed. You’d think our smart guys would have a fix for this by now.
More proof that Admiral Adama was right about not networking data systems
And that was 43 years ago , the original was first aired in 1978.
More about the cyberattack from the Ice Age Farmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUvxuxUjtU4