Hackers Attack Cream Cheese Maker

Hackers this time in the United States one of the largest cream cheese producers targeted. Bloomberg reported that Schreiber Foods in Wisconsin remained closed for only a few days in October after the attack; But the attack, which coincided with a time when Americans were buying a lot of cream cheese, had a negative impact on the cream cheese supply chain. big enough to destroy reported damage.

At the time of the attack, hackers from Schreiber Foods in exchange for regaining access to their systems 2.5 million dollars, that is, even if there are rumors that he demanded the payment of 37,700,250 TL; Later reports did not confirm these rumors.

Cream cheese particularly vulnerable to supply chain woes

According to the report, cream cheese is particularly vulnerable to supply chain problems for a number of reasons. vulnerable case. The foremost of these reasons is that cream cheese is not something that can be stored in the warehouse, but a product that should be sold and served fresh. Apart from this, such as the additional license required to buy milk from dairy farms, which affect the dairy industry in particular other problems also available.

And this is not the first major ransomware attack on a food supplier this year. At the end of September, the NEW Cooperative farmer organization was attacked with a ransom of $5.9 million, or 81,892,590 TL. 11 million dollars demanding equivalent, causing even more supply chain problems. Moreover, such attacks can have far more serious consequences. For example, Junior’s Cheesecake, which is busier during the holiday season compared to other times of the year; Opened Junior’s for a day and a half for the first time in its 71-year history, as the store ran out of cream cheese due to a shortage of cream cheese. have to close left. It is reported that Junior normally uses 4 million pounds of cream cheese a year in a year and produces 5 million pieces of cheesecakes annually, with a 43 percent demand. Alan Rosen, the owner of Junior, said: “Christmas is something else without cheesecake” used the phrases.

Fortunately, things seem to have improved a bit since the attack. According to the information received, the cream cheese supply chain was a little bit worse after the attack in October. managed to recover looks like.