2 minute read A general view of the JBS USA Worthington pork plant in Minnesota, U.S., October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan JBS USA, subsidiary of Brazilian firm JBS SA (JBSS3.SA), said in a statement on Wednesday that the company paid an $11 million ransom in a cyberattack that disrupted much of its North American and Australian operations. The world's largest meat producer canceled shifts at its U.S. and Canadian meat plants last week, after the cyberattack that threatened to disrupt food supply chains and inflate food prices. The Brazilian meatpacker's arm in the United States and Pilgrims Pride Corp (PPC.O), a U.S. chicken company mostly owned by JBS, lost less than one day's worth of food production. read more