Ransomware attack on Blue Yonder hits Starbucks, grocery stores across the world

• Blue Yonder confirmed suffering a ransomware attack
• Several of its customers came forward, saying they were affected, too
• At press time, the company was still working on restoring services

Supply chain management giant Blue Yonder has confirmed suffering a ransomware attack that greatly disrupted its services - and as a result, many of its customers have also had trouble operating.

A short announcement published on the company’s website on November 22 said a day before, it HAD “experienced disruptions to its managed services hosted environment”. Subsequent investigation confirmed that it was a ransomware attack.

“Since learning of the incident, the Blue Yonder team has been working diligently together with external cybersecurity firms to make progress in their recovery process. We have implemented several defensive and forensic protocols,” the announcement reads. “With respect to the Blue Yonder Azure public cloud environment, we are actively monitoring and currently do not see any ...