NEW YORK — Milk brand Fairlife is pausing its production in the U.S. after a ransomware cyberattack breached the company’s systems.<\/p>\n
Coca-Cola, which owns Fairlife, announced Thursday that its dairy company had identified \u201cunauthorized access by a third party\u201d to a portion of its systems, including those related to production. The company disclosed that this was in connection to a ransomware event \u2014 and in response, it took some operations offline.<\/p>\n
\u201cProduct quality and safety have not been impacted,” Atlanta-based Coca-Cola said in a statement. \u201cHowever, as a result of the incident, production operations at fairlife in the United States are temporarily suspended.\u201d <\/p>\n
Fairlife\u2019s Canadian operations were not affected. The full scope and impacts of the attack are otherwise still unknown, Coca-Cola added \u2014 but the beverage giant said it had informed law enforcement, and is also working with cybersecurity experts as it continues its investigation and recovery to restore operations.<\/p>\n
A company spokesperson said there were no further updates to share as of Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Cyberattacks are on the rise across sectors. Beyond dairy goods, other breaches have recently resulted in anything from core education services<\/a> getting knocked offline to empty shelves<\/a> at popular clothing or grocery stores.<\/p>\n Ransomware attacks \u2014 in which hackers demand a hefty payment to restore hacked systems \u2014 also account for a growing share of cyber crimes. And experts note that attackers know there\u2019s a particular impact when going after well-known brands and products<\/a> that shoppers buy or need every day.<\/p>\n Fairlife, based in Chicago, touts over $3 billion in annual retail sales today. The company produces a range of lactose-free products \u2014 which beyond milk, includes protein shakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Milk brand Fairlife is pausing its production in the U.S. after a ransomware cyberattack breached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,4001,793,149,795],"class_list":["post-769026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cybercrime","tag-general-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}