Warehousing and Logistics Company Hit With Ransomware

Who: Container World

# of Accounts Breached:

What was affected: Ransom-seeking cybercriminals successfully breached systems at Container World, a warehousing and logistics company that supplies much of province’s specialty liquor products

When it happened: February 14, 2019

How it happened: Bars, restaurants and private liquor stores around B.C. are dealing with a frustrating backlog in supplies, after hackers targeted one of the biggest links in B.C.’s booze supply chain. Ransom-seeking cybercriminals successfully breached systems at Container World, a warehousing and logistics company that supplies much of province’s specialty liquor products, on Feb. 14.

Outcome: No customers’ financial information was accessed — but the choice to shut down the system took the entire company offline for more than a week while engineers rebuilt the system from the ground up.