Where’s the Beef? Russia Hacks JBS and Beef Shortages Predicted

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 3:10:00 A.M. EDT

(foxnews)

Brazil-based JBS, the world's largest meat producer, has shuttered all of its US-based beef plants as of Tuesday while responding to a cyberattack.

The shutdowns impacted all nine beef plants, located in Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wisconsin, Utah, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union, which represents more than 25,000 JBS employees. JBS's US-based pork plants are still operational.

The shuttered plants produce nearly one-quarter of U.S. beef supplies. In total, JBS employs more than 66,000 workers across 84 US-based locations.

The attack raised concerns of a potential meat shortage in the U.S. and several other countries impacted by the situation. It wasn’t immediately clear how the shutdown would affect meat prices.

JBS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bloomberg was first to report on the shutdowns.

JBS USA said it discovered on Sunday that an “organized cybersecurity attack” had impacted some of its computer systems in North America and Australia. The company noted it would “take time” to resolve the cybersecurity breach and warned it “may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers.”

GRA: Late in the evening JBS said they “hoped to be running Wednesday,” but predictions of panic buying were being made by our calm and cool media. Nice to know we can count on them to cause riots, stampedes and panics on every crisis that comes up. Ja—offs.

--GRA

N.S.: This is what happens, when you unnecessarily link all your computers to the Internet.