The world’s largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of
“This was a very difficult decision to make for our company and for me personally,” said
JBS said the vast majority of its facilities were operational at the time it made the payment, but it decided to pay in order to avoid any unforeseen issues and ensure no data was exfiltrated.
The FBI has attributed the attack to REvil, a Russian-speaking gang that has made some of the largest ransomware demands on record in recent months. The FBI said it will work to bring the group to justice and it urged anyone who is the victim of a cyberattack to contact the bureau immediately.
The attack targeted servers supporting JBS’s operations in
Earlier this week, the
Colonial paid a ransom of 75 bitcoin __ then valued at
It wasn't immediately clear if JBS also paid its ransom in bitcoin.
JBS said it spends more than
The company said forensic investigations are still ongoing, but it doesn't believe any company, customer or employee data was compromised.
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