Fairlife is manufacturing again in the wake of the cyberattack that hit the US dairy business earlier this month.
Parent company The Coca-Cola Co. said today (27 July) Fairlife had “resumed the majority of production” at the business unit’s four factories in the US.
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“Retail availability of Fairlife products has been largely unimpacted due to the availability of existing inventory. Product quality and safety have not been impacted,” Coca-Cola said in a brief statement.
On 16 July, Coca-Cola announced it had it detected “unauthorised access” to a section of its network, including production-linked systems, by a third party.
The US drinks giant did not name the entity involved in the breach.
Last week, the Anubis ransomware group claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Fairlife and threatened to release stolen data.
Coca-Cola declined to comment but said today the company “continues working diligently to restore impacted systems and operations”.
It added: “Based on the information currently available, the company believes the incident has not had, and is not reasonably likely to have, a material impact on the company’s financial condition or results of operations.”
Coca-Cola is set to publish its second-quarter financial results tomorrow.
Several media outlets, including Reuters, said last week Anubis had claimed to have stolen one terabyte of data from Fairlife and had threatened to release the information unless a ransom was handed over.
According to a report from technology news outlet BleepingComputer Anubis issued a statement on its data leak site that read: “We attacked their systems a week ago. Just a few days later, they immediately reported the incident without attempting to follow the instructions we left on their network.
“We have fully encrypted their Nutanix systems. They have no chance of recovering without our encryption key.”
The BleepingComputer report said Anubis had said it would publish the data unless the drinks group started negotiations by the end of the week.
