Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack


U.S. beverage maker Coca-Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and that it’s shutting down its operations for the foreseeable future. The multinational giant said in a disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Fairlife dairy company was hit by ransomware and that its production systems are affected. The company said that its Fairlife production operations across the United States are “temporarily suspended.”

Fairlife’s operations in Canada are unaffected.

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Source:  TechCrunch News


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