Ingredients Giant Ingredion Hit by Malware

guest · Oct 18, 2019

Ingredients Giant Ingredion Hit by Malware
October 18, 2019
https://www.securityweek.com/ingredients-giant-ingredion-hit-malware

Westchester, Illinois-based ingredients giant Ingredion Incorporated revealed this week that it recently detected suspicious activity on some data center servers.
Only a few details have been provided about the incident, but it appears that a piece of malware infected some of the company’s systems.

Ingredion says there is no evidence that customer, supplier or employee data has been compromised. The company says it has called in external experts to assist with restoring affected servers, and there may be some delays in transactions with customers and suppliers.
The ingredient solutions provider admitted that it “will take time” to restore some of the impacted systems.

Ingredion can be a tempting target for such attacks, considering that the company claims to have annual net sales of almost $6 billion. The company turns plant materials into ingredients and biomaterial solutions for the food, beverage and other industries across 120 countries around the world.
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Ingredion statement on Malware

guest · Nov 30, 2019

Ingredion to deduct wages from employee paychecks following malware attack
November 29, 2019
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/...aychecks-following-ransomware-attack-20191129

The next two paychecks Ingredion employees receive will be subject to wage deductions, after a malware attack struck the company’s computer servers and hardware.
Ingredion on Nov. 22 distributed “overpayment acknowledgment and wage deduction authorization” forms to employees, a copy of which The Gazette reviewed, outlining company plans to subtract sums from employees’ Dec. 6 and Dec. 20 paychecks.

Ingredion also faced “configuration problems” stemming from the cyberattack for its Oct. 21-Nov. 3 payroll period, and issued a mispayment for the Nov. 4-17 period, too, the form says.

“We’re working through this process carefully with our hourly employees to ensure this is addressed before the year end,” Hary said. “While the systems incident was unfortunate, we believe the steps we have taken to protect our information and treat our employees fairly are equally important.
Through that investigation, the external security vendor detected and began working to address another strain of malware on Ingredion’s systems, the company wrote in a Nov. 19 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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