Maple Leaf Foods Inc., a Canadian packaged meats company, confirmed it was experiencing a system outage linked to a cyberscurity incident that began over the weekend.
“Upon learning of the incident, Maple Leaf Foods took immediate action and engaged cybersecurity and recovery experts. Its team of information systems professionals and third-party experts are working diligently with all available resources to investigate the outage and resolve the situation,” the release said.
The company will execute its business continuity plans as it works to restore the impacted systems; however, a release said that the company expects that full resolution of the outage will take time and result in some operational and service disruptions. Maple Leaf Foods will work with all its customers and suppliers to minimize these disruptions in order to continue delivering the nutritious food people need.
In addition to Maple Leaf Foods, the Canadian company Empire Company Ltd., which operates Sobey’s, Safeway and affiliated pharmacy operations was cyber-attacked, the CBC reports.
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