It comes following a number of recent attacks
One of the UK’s largest supermarket suppliers has been held to ransom by cyber hackers in the most recent attack.
Major distributor Peter Green Chilled, which supplies Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Aldi, was hit on Wednesday evening last week and was later confirmed later in the week by the firm after the BBC saw an email.
The firm said no orders would be processed on Thursday but would send any order previously arranged.
Tom Binks, managing director of Peter Green Chilled said: “The transport activities of the business have continued unaffected throughout this incident.”
One supplier to the distributor expressed his concerns for his products after the cyber attack meant his ten pallets of meat products could not be shipped.
He said they will be “thrown in the bin” if products are not delivered to retailers.
This latest attack comes after a slew of over cyber hacks on other major retailers including M&S and Co-op.
The attacks last month cost millions in sales to M&S with online orders being paused for three weeks.
Meanwhile Co-op came extremely close to being locked out of their own computer system.
