Japan is faced with a potential lack of ASAHI beer after the cyberataka against the drinking manufacturer forced its offline systems. Asahi Group released a statement On Monday, the announcement that order, shipment and operations in the call center in the company were suspended from the disconnection of the systems, and that the violation was limited by Japan.
The company now began to manually process orders, according to Updated notification published todayBut system orders and large -scale deliveries remain suspended. Asahi said that this was aimed at the attack of extortionists, but holds the specifics “to prevent further damage.” The company cannot provide a clear schedule for the restoration of the system.
“We took immediate measures to restrain and respond to the incident,” Asahi said in a notification of the abandonment of the system. “Subsequent studies have confirmed traces involving a potential unauthorized data transfer. We spend [an] An investigation to determine the nature and scale of information, which may have been subject to unauthorized transmission. ”
Financial times On Thursday, it was reported that large Japanese retailers evaluate that the national reserves of ASAHI SUPER DRY – the most popular beer of the country – will be dry this weekend if the supply chains are not restored.
