Peter Green, a distributor of chilled and fresh products in the UK, fell victim to a ransomware attack that has disrupted operations across the company. The incident, reported to have started on May 14, left the company incapable of accepting new orders, significantly affecting their clients. Customers such as Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, founder of The Black Farmer, expressed desperation as existing stocks could spoil, leading to potentially devastating losses for small businesses relying on timely deliveries. The incident illustrates the severe effects cyber attacks can have on food supply chains and retail.
According to BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to money programme - which was first to report the story - the attack appears to have begun on the evening of Wednesday 14 May and has left the organisation unable to accept new orders.
A spokesperson for Peter Green told the programme it was not in a position to be able to discuss the incident further. However, one of the organisation's customers, The Black Farmer founder Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, said that almost a week into the incident, he had been offered no solution for how Peter Green was going to get stock he had already delivered to its warehouses out to retailers.
If they're not delivered in the next couple of days, because they're fresh products, they have to be thrown away. For a small business it is pretty devastating.
To make matters even worse is that we've just also got a delivery that's come in from Sweden that is stuck at a port because Peter Green is not taking in any other stock from any suppliers.
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