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After KFC shortage warning, Japan frozen food supplier reboots from cyberattack
Nichirei, Japan's largest frozen food supplier and cold-chain logistics provider, is restoring warehouse and delivery systems following a cyberattack that disrupted distribution and forced KFC to warn of possible store closures. The company aims to restore normal operations as soon as next week.
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The Wire takeaway
If you supply restaurants, quick-service chains, or retailers in Japan, your distribution just became visible to attackers. The week Nichirei goes down is the week your backup logistics partner gets calls - get your failover contracts signed before the next hit.
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Topics: Supply Chain · Cybersecurity · cyberattack · cold-chain · supply-chain-disruption · critical-infrastructure · operational-resilience