Hack attack at major B.C. booze distributor leaves customers struggling with backlog

guest · Mar 14, 2019

Hack attack at major B.C. booze distributor leaves customers struggling with backlog
March 11, 2019
https://globalnews.ca/news/5045899/container-world-hack/

Bars, restaurants and private liquor stores around B.C. are dealing with a frustrating backlog in supplies, after hackers targeted one of the biggest links in B.C.’s booze supply chain.

Ransom-seeking cybercriminals successfully breached systems at Container World, a warehousing and logistics company that supplies much of province’s specialty liquor products, on Feb. 14.
“There was a threat of a demand, but we didn’t know if this was a legitimate demand or if it was just a prank. So we chose to not pay any demand ransoms and to take the appropriate action to protect our systems.”

Barlow said no customers’ financial information was accessed — but the choice to shut down the system took the entire company offline for more than a week while engineers rebuilt the system from the ground up.
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