The global meat giant JBS, victim of a cyber attack at the end of May, paid a ransom of $ 11 million in bitcoins to hackers, the boss of the group's American subsidiary told the
Wall Street Journal
on Wednesday (June 9)
.
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“It was very painful to pay the criminals, but we did the right thing for our clients,”
Andre Nogueira told the daily. JBS had indicated to the American authorities to be the target of a cyberattack with ransomware coming from a
"criminal organization probably based in Russia"
, according to the White House.
