Clorox Products In Short Supply After Cyberattack (cnn.com) 37
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A cyberattack at Clorox is causing wide-scale disruption of the company's operations, hampering its ability to make its cleaning materials, Clorox said Monday. Clorox said some of its products are now in short supply as it has struggled to meet consumer demand during the disruption. Clorox didn't specify which of its products are affected.
The company on Monday revealed in a regulatory filing that it detected unauthorized activity in some of its information technology systems in August. Clorox said it immediately took action to stop the attack, including reducing its operations. It now believes the attack has been contained. Still, Clorox has not been able to get its manufacturing operations back up to full speed. The company said it is fulfilling and processing orders manually. The company doesn't expect to begin the process of returning to normal operations until next week.
"Clorox has already resumed production at the vast majority of its manufacturing sites and expects the ramp up to full production to occur over time," the company said. "At this time, the company cannot estimate how long it will take to resume fully normalized operations." The company said the cyberattack and the delays will hurt its current-quarter financial results materially, although Clorox said determining any longer-term impact would be premature, "given the ongoing recovery."
The company on Monday revealed in a regulatory filing that it detected unauthorized activity in some of its information technology systems in August. Clorox said it immediately took action to stop the attack, including reducing its operations. It now believes the attack has been contained. Still, Clorox has not been able to get its manufacturing operations back up to full speed. The company said it is fulfilling and processing orders manually. The company doesn't expect to begin the process of returning to normal operations until next week.
"Clorox has already resumed production at the vast majority of its manufacturing sites and expects the ramp up to full production to occur over time," the company said. "At this time, the company cannot estimate how long it will take to resume fully normalized operations." The company said the cyberattack and the delays will hurt its current-quarter financial results materially, although Clorox said determining any longer-term impact would be premature, "given the ongoing recovery."
OG chaos monkey (Score:3)
Please deposit 3 bitcoin to avoid disruption of operations!
Have a nice day!
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Re: There goes my COVID treatment (Score:2)
It's got what plants crave
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Some people were accusing doctors of malpractice for not giving them ivermectin on demand. At the same time, some who were seriously ill with Covid refused Remdesivir and died, even though Trump was treated with it. The Freedom to be Stupid is all they were asking for, even if it means other people have to pay for it.
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The local animal feed store actually quit selling it and put up a sign saying they would no longer stock it because of liability from people buying it to use on themselves instead of their livestock.
Re: There goes my COVID treatment (Score:2)
Go get a bottle of vodka and a bottle of methalated sprits ... see which one gets you drunker first ... they are both alcohol afterall
Re: Well, shit.... (Score:2)
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Is it me or does the smell of burning sage reek of cat piss
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When all this blows over (Score:5, Funny)
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But they gotta first scrub their servers.
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At least they will have a clean start
Depends on how clean they need it.
Hell, they could be fresh out of Bleachbit.
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Has this incident affected the supplies of ranch dressing?
Interesting Fact About Clorox (Score:5, Interesting)
They take the quality of their cleaning products very seriously. During the Second World War there was a shortage of sodium hypochlorite and the U.S. government asked bleach manufacturers to cut the concentration of hypochlorite in their bleach. Clorox refused, maintaining the same 6% concentration they have always had, since hospitals and other users where sanitation is critical rely on its strength. Instead they cut production and made less money than they could have.
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Sure, back in the days when businesses made quality products to last forever and had some moral compass.
Today it's profit at all costs, growth at all costs, damn the humans let them suffer and die poor with their broken worthless products, profit!!!
Not a fact any more. (Score:1)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/10/fact-check-does-clorox-splash-less-bleach-formula-disinfect/3169980001/ [usatoday.com]
This Clorox product uses less than 1% but it's labeled specifically for germ cleaning. https://www.cloroxpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clorox-Healthcare%C2%AE-Bleach-Germicidal-Cleaner-Technical-Info_Clorox-HC-Bleach-Grm-Clnr-tech-info-NI-38490.pdf [cloroxpro.com]
According to this PDF, Clorox considers concentrations of hypochlorite to be a trade secret. https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/wp- [thecloroxcompany.com]
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I'm replying to my own post. I had some regular Clorox bleach and I looked at the hypochlorite concentration on the label. 4.5%
The CDC recommends a range from 5%-9%. https://www.cdc.gov/hygiene/cleaning/disinfecting-bleach.html [cdc.gov] I guess Clorox didn't tell them that 4.5% is good enough.
smart move (Score:2)
Who cares? (Score:1)
Really, who the hell really cares about this, aside from Clorox shareholders, employees, and management? It's not like the world is going to run out of bleach and other cleaning products. There are other companies that make good cleaning products like Proctor & Gamble (full disclosure: I own a little bit of this company's stock). And when it comes to chlorine bleach, bleach is bleach no matter who makes it. It's the same stuff no matter whose label is on the bottle. The bad news is that its another
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and removing them from society. Permanently.
Make sure they take the fascists that post their authoritarian drivel online with them
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Hmmm.... What are you suggesting? Life in prison? A death sentence? Given that the perps are probably all in Russia, are you suggesting a special rendition to some black site or Gitmo? I'm sure the Russians would be thrilled to learn about the US doing that on their soil. If you really feel this way, an extralegal assassination might be your best bet. Just have the perp fall out of a window or find that some polonium has been put into his tea. Everyone will think that Putin did it.
Keep your production equipment OFFLINE !!! (Score:2)