The CEO said that the company paid the ransom to prevent any negative impacts on restaurants, grocery stores and farmers.
The CEO of JBS Meats, the company whose plants process nearly one-fifth of the nation's meat supply, said that paying an $11 million ransom to cybercriminals last week was"the right thing for our customers."that the company paid the ransom to prevent any negative impacts on restaurants, grocery stores and farmers.
"It was very painful to pay the criminals, but we did the right thing for our customers," Nogueira told theThe CEO said that as soon as he learned about the cyberattack, JBS began shutting down its technical systems to try and prevent hackers from reaching any other company computer systems. The company called its technology vendors as well as cybersecurity experts and consultants to advise the company and negotiate with the attackers.
Andre Nogueira, the CEO of JBS, the company that supplies one-fifth of U.S. meat products, has said that his company's $11 million payment to cyberhackers who attacked the company last week as"the right thing for our customers." In this photo, employees prepare pieces of beef at a supermarket in Sao Paulo, Brazil, of May 30, 2007.The May 30 cyberattack compelled JBS to shut down processing at its five biggest beef plants in the United States.
JBS told the White House that it suspected a"criminal organization likely based in Russia" as being responsible. The has been investigating. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has also contacted major meat processors nationwide to examine potential threats in the national food production chain.in the U.S. and Australia. The rising costs resulted, in part, from other meatpackers increasing prices in fear of a possible shortage.
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