Major US Grocery Distributor Warns of Disruption After Cyberattack (techcrunch.com) 8
United Natural Foods (UNFI), a major distributor of groceries to Whole Foods and other retailers, said on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack, warning of disruptions to its ability to fulfill and distribute customer orders. From a report: UNFI said in a Monday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it became aware of unauthorized access to its IT systems last Thursday, and began shutting down portions of its network. The filing added that the company has "implemented workarounds for certain operations in order to continue servicing its customers where possible," but noted that the intrusion has caused ongoing disruptions to its business operations.
The Providence, Rhode Island-based company is one of the largest grocery distributors in North America, selling fresh produce, goods, and food products to more than 30,000 stores and supermarket locations across the U.S. and Canada. UNFI also serves as the "primary distributor" to Whole Foods, the Amazon-owned grocery chain. Last year, the two companies extended their long-running contract until May 2032.
The Providence, Rhode Island-based company is one of the largest grocery distributors in North America, selling fresh produce, goods, and food products to more than 30,000 stores and supermarket locations across the U.S. and Canada. UNFI also serves as the "primary distributor" to Whole Foods, the Amazon-owned grocery chain. Last year, the two companies extended their long-running contract until May 2032.
UNFI (Score:4, Informative)
For those who havent worked in the grocery business, UNFI is the primary distributor for Whole Foods and a ton of independent natural food grocery stores so this wont be effecting conventional markets much. In parts of the country at least they are the dominant distributor for all natural and organic foods..
Cut law enforcement and this is what happens (Score:3)
You know that all of that nonsense about "efficiency" that reduced the teams that go after cyber crimes in the department of justice just encourages China, Russia, and North Korea to attack our infrastructure. So, Trump has all of this going on so he won't get prosecuted once he is out of office, but you also have foreign governments now encouraging hacking groups to attack ANYTHING in the USA they possibly can.
Or... (Score:4, Insightful)
Insecure IT systems at Fortune 500 company cause loss of shareholder value. CIO/CTO fired and charges of criminal negligence pending.
If this were the headline, perhaps we'd see fewer of them...
Many thanks to Ronald Reagan (Score:2)
Like how there is two factories making all of the baby formula in the entire freaking country. So we had a massive baby formula shortage when one of the two factories had to shut down because of rampant safety violations involving listeria bacteria.
And for all you people excited about t
Oh darn (Score:1)
1. grocery store IT systems are right up there with bowling alleys
2. their competitor is one of our largest customers
hahaha sucks for them.