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The Blue Yonder supply chain attack has already affected a number of major organisations, including Starbucks, Morrisons, and Sainsbury’s.
Australia Post (AusPost) has confirmed that it is unaffected by the Blue Yonder supply chain attack, which has disrupted a number of companies.
Responding to inquiries by Cyber Daily, AusPost confirmed that it was unaffected by the incident but declined providing a written statement.
Cyber Daily has also reached out to a number of other Blue Yonder customers, including 7-Eleven, Nestlé, Ford, Microsoft, Lenovo and Australia’s Super Retail Group, which is responsible for major retail stores, including Supercheap Auto, BCF, Rebel, and Macpac.
The Blue Yonder cyber incident was first detected on 21 November, when the company said it “experienced disruptions to its managed services hosted environment.” It soon determined that a ransomware incident was to blame.
“Since learning of the incident, the Blue Yonder team has been working diligently together with external cyber security firms to make progress in their recovery process. We have implemented several defensive and forensic protocols,” said Blue Yonder.
“With respect to the Blue Yonder Azure public cloud environment, we are actively monitoring and currently do not see any suspicious activity.”
Blue Yonder has continued to provide updates on the incident but has only said that their investigation is ongoing. No ransomware gang has yet claimed responsibility for the incident.
A number of Blue Yonder customers have reported issues with their systems following the Blue Yonder incident.
On Monday (25 November), coffee giant Starbucks said its system for scheduling employees and tracking their shifts was disrupted as a result of the Blue Yonder outage.
As a result, the company has resorted to scheduling, tracking and paying its employees manually.
Starbucks ensured that its customer service was unaffected by the incident.
A number of major grocery stores in the UK also suffered following the supply chain attack.
Both Morrisons and Sainsbury’s told CNN that they had acted as a result of the incident.
“We have reverted to a backup process, but the outage has caused the smooth flow of goods to our stores to be impacted,” said a Morrisons spokesperson.
Similarly, Sainsbury’s said it was affected and that it was “in close contact with Blue Yonder and can reassure our customers we have contingencies in place.”
ASDA, Waitrose, Tesco, and Marks & Spencer (M&S) are also major UK grocery and retail stores, all of which are Blue Yonder clients; however, ASDA and Waitrose have confirmed they are unaffected.
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