Security News > 2023 > April > Cold storage giant Americold outage caused by network breach
Americold, a leading cold storage and logistics company, has been facing IT issues since its network was breached on Tuesday night.
"Americold is continuing to assess the intrusion that occurred Tues night / Wed morning. We contained the intrusion and shut down our network to ensure there is no risk to non-contained areas or customers. We are still in the discovery process on the path to rebuild the impacted systems," the cold storage giant said.
Americold asked customers to cancel all "Inbound" deliveries past next week and to reschedule all but the most critical outbounds reaching expiration dates.
"In the meantime, it is requested that you cancel any inbounds out past next week. Outbounds will continue to be very limited in manual capabilities, so we would like to request that any non-critical outbounds be pushed out and rescheduled with your site SR at a later date," Americold said.
An Americold spokesperson was not immediately available for comment when contacted by BleepingComputer earlier today.
In November 2020, Americold was hit by another cyberattack that affected its operations, including phone systems, email, inventory management, and order fulfillment.