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The company, JBS, is based in Brazil but the attack seems to have been targeted at the company's operations in the U.S., Canada and Australia.
When hackers struck meat processor JBS, they temporarily took down almost a quarter of meat packing capacity nationwide. The attack shows vulnerabilities in food supply chain that are under assault.
The world's largest beef producer is coming back online Wednesday after it was hit by a cyber attack. The company, JBS, is based in Brazil but the attack seems to have been targeted at the company's operations in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Meg King, director of the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Wilson Center, about the wider implications. This segment aired on June 2, 2021. Advertisement
The Greeley JBS meat packing plant in Greeley, Colorado. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Less than a week after the Transportation Security Administration responded to the Colonial Pipeline shutdown with a landmark order for oil and gas pipelines to abide by cybersecurity rules, major food supplier JBS had operations interrupted by its own cyberattack. The United States government traditionally handled cybersecurity on a sector-by-sector basis. How does it respond to a problem that transcends industry boundaries? JBS is the world’s leading provider of meat, operating in six coun...