The United Natural Foods (UNFI), North America’s largest public -traded wholesa distributor, was forced to close some systems after a recent cyber attack.
Road Island-based company operates 53 distribution centers and distributes fresh and frozen products at more than 30,000 locations in the United States and Canada, including supermarket chains, e-commerce provides, natural product superstars, independent retailers and food service customers.
UNFI reported $ 31 billion in annual revenue in August 2024, works with over 11,000 suppliers, and over 28,000 workers.
In 8-K filing With US Securities and Exchange Commission and A Press release On its website, the company revealed that a cyber attack discovered on Thursday, June 5 forced it to take some systems offline, affecting customer orders.
“The company immediately activated its event response plan and implemented control measures, which involves continuously offline some systems, which temporarily impressed the company’s ability to fulfill and distribute the customer’s orders,” UNFI said.
“Due to this incident, and the company is expected to continue temporary disruption in commercial operations.”
Since the violation was discovered, wholesaler veteran has informed the relevant law enforcement officers and hired external cyber security experts to investigate the incident.
UNFI has also taken measures to maintain the continuity of customer service, until the affected system is restored, implementing the workaround.
“The company is actively working to assess, reduce and remove the incident with the help of third -party cyber security professionals and informed the law enforcement,” he said.
“As per its commercial continuity plans, the company has implemented a work -round for some operations to continue its customers’ service, where possible. The company continues to work to restore its system to bring its system back safely.”
This disclosure is as follows On a large scale Reports But Social media From Thursday that the company’s systems were below and employees were canceled their innings.
UNFI has not yet disclosed the nature of the attack or the attackers have stolen any data from the company’s network. Additionally, no ransomware operations have claimed responsibility for violations.
An UNFI spokesperson was not available for comment on contact by the first bleepingcomputer.
The UNFI is the latest food industry in recent years. For example, in March, the club of Walmart’s warehouse supermarket chain Sam revealed that it was investigating the claims of a clop ransomware breech.
Food giant JBS Foods, the world’s largest beef producer, also paid a ransom of $ 11 million in 2021, as a review ransomware attack forced it to shut down production at many sites worldwide.
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