{"id":6648,"date":"2021-06-10T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:58:27","slug":"jbs-says-it-paid-11-million-ransom-following-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/jbs-says-it-paid-11-million-ransom-following-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"JBS Says It Paid $11 Million Ransom Following Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a ransomware attack that disrupted the meat processing company JBS, USA CEO Andre Nogueira said that the company had paid a ransom equivalent to $11 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although JBS&#8217;s meat factories recovered faster from the attack than some analysts and meat buyers had expected, Nogueira explained why the company had to pay the ransom, though it was undoubtedly a difficult decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: &#8220;This was a very difficult decision to make for our company and for me personally. However, we felt this decision had to be made to prevent any potential risk for our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-cyber-jbs\/jbs-paid-11-million-in-response-to-ransomware-attack-idUSKCN2DL2UW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following JBS ransomware attack U.S. CEO said that the company had paid a ransom equivalent to $11 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}