Cold storage giant Americold outage caused by network breach

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Americold, a leading cold storage and logistics company, has been facing IT issues since its network was breached on Tuesday night.

The company said it contained the attack and is now investigating the incident that also affected operations per customer and employee reports.

It also estimated that its systems will be down until at least next week, according to a memo seen by BleepingComputer and sent to customers earlier this week.

"Americold is continuing to assess the intrusion that occurred Tues night / Wed morning. We contained the intrusion and shut down our network to ensure there is no risk to non-contained areas or customers. We are still in the discovery process on the path to rebuild the impacted systems," the cold storage giant said.

"At this moment, we are anticipating a scenario to be brought back up by mid-next week. As we continue to work to understand the level at which data will be recovered, we will be able adjust our anticipated timeline for restart and will provide updates accordingly."

In November 2020, Americold was hit by another cyberattack that affected its operations, including phone systems, email, inventory management, and order fulfillment.

As BleepingComputer was told at the time by multiple sources, the November 2020 incident was a ransomware attack.

Cold storage giant Americold outage caused by network breach

Americold, a leading cold storage and logistics company, has been facing IT issues since its network was breached on Tuesday night.

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