To say that this isn’t good is an understatement.
Yesterday I reported on a company called Blue Yonder getting pwned by ransomware. And with that some of their customers have been pwned as well. Today we’re finding out how bad this is.
Those disruption have extended to some of its major customers, with Starbucks’ employee schedules and payroll systems temporarily unavailable.
In the UK, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, two of the country’s top six retailers, have also experienced some impact.
A Morrisons spokesperson told CNN, “We have reverted to a backup process but the outage has caused the smooth flow of goods to our stores to be impacted.”
And even automotive giant Ford seems to be affected:
Automaker Ford said Monday that it was investigating any potential impact.
“Ford is aware and is actively investigating if a cyber incident at a third-party supplier has any impact on our operations or systems,” said Ford spokesperson Ian Thibodeau.
And as time goes on, this is likely to get worse.
I think this situation illustrates something that I have been saying for a while. Which is that if you have third parties doing stuff for you on your network, you have to trust that those third parties are secure. Because if they’re not, you’re going to get affected by the fact that they got pwned by hackers. I hope that this situation makes it clear to organizations that they need to do their due diligence in terms of who has access to their network. And on top of that, they need to a have a plan to keep the bad guys out, kick them out if they get in, and get back online if the worst happens. This situation illustrates that having that sort of plan is not optional.
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The Pwnage Of Blue Yonder Is Worse Than Was Previously Thought
To say that this isn’t good is an understatement.
Yesterday I reported on a company called Blue Yonder getting pwned by ransomware. And with that some of their customers have been pwned as well. Today we’re finding out how bad this is.
Those disruption have extended to some of its major customers, with Starbucks’ employee schedules and payroll systems temporarily unavailable.
In the UK, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, two of the country’s top six retailers, have also experienced some impact.
A Morrisons spokesperson told CNN, “We have reverted to a backup process but the outage has caused the smooth flow of goods to our stores to be impacted.”
And even automotive giant Ford seems to be affected:
Automaker Ford said Monday that it was investigating any potential impact.
“Ford is aware and is actively investigating if a cyber incident at a third-party supplier has any impact on our operations or systems,” said Ford spokesperson Ian Thibodeau.
And as time goes on, this is likely to get worse.
I think this situation illustrates something that I have been saying for a while. Which is that if you have third parties doing stuff for you on your network, you have to trust that those third parties are secure. Because if they’re not, you’re going to get affected by the fact that they got pwned by hackers. I hope that this situation makes it clear to organizations that they need to do their due diligence in terms of who has access to their network. And on top of that, they need to a have a plan to keep the bad guys out, kick them out if they get in, and get back online if the worst happens. This situation illustrates that having that sort of plan is not optional.
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