N.B. Liquor CEO Lori Stickles says the company’s security systems worked as intended during an attempted cyber attack this month. “We got the alert, we were able to basically put a choke hold on it by shutting our system down proactively,” Stickles said in an interview Thursday.
Stickles was unable to provide details on how the system was breached, or how much the breach cost in revenue and third-party support fixing it. She said no signs of ransomware or malware had been detected in the system.
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Source: MSN News
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