Maple Leaf Foods

Maple Leaf Foods is a Canadian packaged meat company.

History

2022: Cyberattack that shut down the company's IT systems

Canada's largest meat producer Maple Leaf Foods has survived a cyber attack that shut down corporate IT systems. The company itself announced this on November 6, 2022.

{{quote 'Upon learning of the incident, Maple Leaf Foods took immediate action and engaged specialists in the cyber security recovery of the system. The in-house IT specialist team and outside experts work diligently with all available resources to investigate the failure and resolve the situation. The company is executing its business continuity plans as it works to recover affected systems. However, it is expected that a complete elimination of the failure will take time and lead to some malfunctions and maintenance, the company said in a statement. }}

Canada's largest meat producer survives cyber attack that shut down company's IT systems

The Canadian meat producer said it would not stop working with customers and partners to minimize disruption to food supplies to the Canadian market.

In a comment given to the media, a company spokesman said that the investigation was in full swing by November 6, 2022, but it had not yet been established how or by whom the cyber attack was carried out.

{{quote 'Disconnecting IT systems causes some malfunctions and maintenance that vary by business unit, plant and site, the company added. }} Maple Leaf Foods is Canada's largest producer of ready-made meat and poultry dishes, which by November 2022 has 21 production facilities and 14 thousand employees.

In November 2022, several cyber attacks on large businesses in Canada were recorded at once. Thus, part of Sobeys and Safeway stores, as well as pharmacies that are part of the Empire group of companies, suffered. As a result of the incident, pharmacists in pharmacies lost the opportunity to work with electronic prescriptions for some time.^[1]

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