Lactalis, the world's one of the best dairy groups disclosed that it was recently hit by cyberattacks after hackers breached its company's systems. Short for Lactalis group, the company has around 85,000 employees working throughout 81 countries, with dairy exports to more than 100 countries across the globe.
Lactalis group also owns few top global brands which include Galbani, Lactel, Parmalat, Santal, and Président.
In a press release issued last Friday, the company said that merely a few computers in the network were affected in the attack. Lactalis had identified malicious access in its computer network, upon finding the intrusion, the company immediately contained the attack and informed the investigative agencies later.
Further investigations revealed that a third party tried breaking into the company networks.
Luckily, there was no data breach, says Lactalis after an ongoing investigation that confirmed the incident. The press release reads, "The Lactalis Group has detected an intrusion on part of its computer network. We immediately took steps to contain this attack and have notified the competent authorities. The results of our investigations establish that a malicious third party is seeking to break into our servers. For the sake of transparency, we are making public this information. Our IT teams are fully mobilized and supported by experts recognized in cybersecurity. Our investigation with them revealed no data breach at this point."
The company has currently taken down its IT systems across all the company websites that were affected by the attack.
The company further adds, "Lactalis teams are working to protect the interests of our customers, our partners, and our employees. This is why we have restricted, at our initiative to as a preventive measure, our access to the public internet network." As of now, Lactalis says that it didn't suffer any data breach during the attack, however, in most cases, threat actors usually steal personal information and data when spreading throughout a breached network. Attacks like these often lead to extortion and threat actors may expose information on data leak sites if the party fails to pay the ransom.
