Coca-Cola halts Fairlife dairy production in U.S. after ransomware breach
Coca-Cola announced that ransomware compromised its Fairlife dairy subsidiary, leading to a temporary suspension of production at U.S. facilities while Canadian operations continue unaffected.
Coca-Cola disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Fairlife dairy unit was hit by a ransomware attack, forcing a suspension of production at all U.S. sites. The company said the disruption is temporary and did not provide a timeline for restoring the affected systems. Operations at Fairlife facilities in Canada remain unaffected. > "Our Fairlife production operations across the United States are temporarily suspended," the company said in its filing. The incident adds to a series of cyberattacks on food and beverage firms, including previous ransomware events at Arizona Beverages in 2019 and distributor UNFI last year, which caused extended production delays. Coca-Cola did not specify when the U.S. production lines would resume.