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SECOND MIDWEST AG CO-OP VICTIM OF RANSOMWARE ATTACK
Sep. 27, 2021
The Scoop magazine reports:
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| Crystal Valley Cooperative in Minnesota
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Minnesota agricultural firm Crystal Valley Cooperative said it had been targeted in a ransomware attack in recent days, making it the second Midwestern farm-services provider in a week to be forced to take systems offline due to cybersecurity incidents.
Crystal Valley, which sells supplies like fertilizer to farmers and buys their crops, said it became aware of the attack on Sunday, prompting it to take operating systems offline and to stop accepting major credit cards.
"This attack has infected the computer systems at Crystal Valley and severely interrupted the daily operations of the company," Crystal Valley said in a statement on its website. It asked customers for understanding while the company resolves the issue.
The attack left Crystal Valley unable to mix fertilizer or fulfil orders for livestock feed, said Kevin Paap, a corn and soybean farmer in Garden City, Minnesota, on Thursday.
"With the help of some other local co-ops, they're helping grind some feed and sharing the burden," he said.
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