Cyberattack causes delays for South Africa’s largest chicken producer

Astral Foods, South Africa’s largest chicken producer, suffered a cyberattack on March 16 that caused week-long outages affecting processing and deliveries and resulted in about 20 million rand (~$1M) in lost profits; systems have been recovered, no sensitive data has been reported compromised, and the nature of the attack and identity of the attackers remain unconfirmed.