Ransomware Attack on Blue Yonder Hits Starbucks, Supermarkets

A disruptive ransomware attack on Blue Yonder, a supply chain management software provider for major retailers, consumer product companies, and manufacturers, highlights the heightened risk organizations face during the busy holiday season.

A Nov. 21 attack on Blue Yonder affected infrastructure that the company uses to host a variety of managed services for customers, which include 46 of the top 100 manufacturers, 64 of the top 100 consumer product goods makers, and 76 of the top 100 retailers in the world.

Major UK Supermarket Chains Hit in Cyberattack

Among those reportedly most affected by the attacks are Morrisons and Sainsbury's, two of the UK's largest supermarket chains. British media outlet The Grocer quoted a Morrisons spokesperson as describing the Blue Yonder attack as affecting the smooth delivery of goods to stores in the UK. Availability of some product lines at wholesale and convenience locations could drop to as low as 60% of normal availability, the media outlet reported.

In the US, Starbucks reported the Blue Yonder attack affecting a back-end process for employing scheduling and time-tracking. Jaci Anderson, director of corporate communications at Starbucks, tells Dark Reading that the company is working on addressing issues caused by the Blue Yonder outage so employees are paid with "limited disruption or discrepancy."

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