Peter Green Chilled, a logistics firm, has announced that it has been attacked by a ransomware attack, interrupting deliveries of refrigerated goods to some of the country’s top supermarkets.
Customers — largely smaller producers who provide food to regional stores in Somerset, such as Aldi, Tesco, and Sainsbury’s — received an email last Thursday informing them that the company will be unable to complete part of their orders owing to the cyber incident.
Peter Green Chilled told the BBC that the attack occurred last Wednesday and had no effect on the company’s transport business, but he declined to elaborate on how the incident affected the IT infrastructure via which orders are placed.
A substantial part of the nation’s frozen food is transported by Reed Boardall, a cold storage and refrigerated transport company that was attacked a number of years ago. Some of its customers have warned that they would be spoilt if they couldn’t get their products delivered to retailers in time, despite the fact that Peter Green Chilled is a far smaller supplier than Reed Boardall.