According to reports from Bloomberg, 20 percent of U.S. beef capacity has been “wiped out” by a cyberattack on JBS S.A., a Brazilian company that is the largest meat processing company in the world.
“JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S. — which altogether handle 22,500 cattle a day — halted processing following a weekend attack on the Brazilian company’s computer networks, according to JBS posts on Facebook, labor unions and employees,” wrote Bloomberg. “Those outages wiped out nearly a fifth of America’s production. Slaughter operations across Australia were also down, according to a trade group, and one of Canada’s largest beef plants was idled.”
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