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UK, US retail giants hit by ongoing disruption after ransomware attack on supply chain firm


The Arizona-based firm said it has "no timeline" for restoration, following a cyberattack that caused disruption at companies around the world.

A ransomware attack on Blue Yonder, one of the world’s largest supply chain software providers, is causing ongoing disruption to operations at a number of major U.S. and U.K. stores and retailers. Arizona-based Blue Yonder, which was acquired by Panasonic in 2021, said in a statement on its website on Friday that it had experienced disruptions to its managed services hosted environment, “which was determined to be the result of a ransomware incident.” Katherine Woodhouse, a spokesperson for Morrisons, which has almost 500 grocery stores across the U.K., said that the “outage” at Blue Yonder had affected its warehouse management systems for fresh and produce.

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