Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/clorox-cyberattack-shortage-bleach-litter/
A cyberattack against Clorox last month that shut down factories has created a nationwide shortage of bleach and cat litter::The producer of disinfectants, wipes, cat litter, salad dressing and cleaners said some of its US factories still aren’t making goods
SALAD DRESSING?! Are you Americans going to a restaurant and ask the waiter to bring you a salad with clorox?
I mean, trump was crazy to suggest injecting bleach, but maybe eating it on a side salad helps with covid?
(please don’t try this)
If you listen closely, you can hear a Facebook group using your post as research.
Hidden Valley Ranch is owned by Clorox.
OK so let’s get that straight, a chemical cleaning company owns a ranch in some secret valley where they produce salad dressing and no one suspects anything. the US is weird. (\s because irony doesn’t always work on Lemmy)
Clorox owns Hidden Valley Ranch brand of salad dressings. They also own Burt’s Bees cosmetics. I’m unsure which cat litter they own. They also own Kingsford charcoal.
Source: I’m a retail merchandiser who has done several jobs for Clorox the past several months and I’ve had to run around the store from one department to another for various audits.
I hope they’re not making the salad dressing in the same factory as the one making bleach.
Eh there’s plenty of other nasty stuff in food factories, machines are usually cleaned by pumping caustic soda and nitric acid solutions… ammonia cooling systems…
Why do you think Ranch is as white as it is?!
It’s marketed as a self-cleaning production facility.
Another shortage of bleach you say? I guess we get to double the price again.
Companies will say anything to raise prices.
While true every production manager I have met in my life would need multiple dime bags to even be reduced to type A. If a factory isn’t producing it is because it can’t produce. I have my stories here is one:
Alarm goes off. Manager is demanding to know why. As fast as I can I trace it down to one computer inside a control cabinet. It is plexiglass with a metal frame. Somehow the Ethernet cord has come lose and that is the problem. Can’t open the frame since it is locked. He is yelling on the radio for the key. Argument over the radio over who has the key. Looks at me and says
“Are you absolutely certain this problem is from a lose Ethernet cord?”
“Yes”
“Stand back”
He proceeds to start bare handed punching the plexiglass until it breaks open then gives me a death stare. I put the Ethernet cord back in and the alarm goes off.
Saw him the next day with his arm in a sling. Yeah Jesus fucking Christ.
At least they should be good at wiping their servers clean.
Like with a cloth or something?
Why can’t cyberattacks be directed towards things along the lines of hacktivism?
Yeah, where’s the Project Mayhem shit of blowing up all the banks to reset everyone to $0 in wealth and debt?
I am confused by the cat litter part. Prettyr sure bleach and ammonia should never be mixed
Clorox owns Fresh Step, amongst others.
Not my beloved bleach!! It’s my favorite cleaner.
Did you know that it feels slippery due to saponification? It’s using your own body oils!
It smells good, it tastes good, AND it makes its own soap. It really is a miracle product.
It was Ted Clorox
You mean Todd?
Todd. Stupid Google Keyboard autocorrect, sponsored by lizard people.
Damn, Todd Clorox got access the spaceships now? Nowhere is safe now.
Big pharma hard at work
How will I stay hydrated now?! pepehands /s
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Clorox says it’s experiencing product shortages nationwide across its categories following last month’s attack on its information-technology systems, and the company projects a “material” impact on its quarterly results.
The producer of disinfectants, wipes, cat litter, salad dressing and cleaners said some of its US factories still aren’t making goods, although the “vast majority” have resumed output.
For now, the company is manually processing orders at some facilities — a task that is usually automated — as it restarts operations.
“It is premature for us to determine longer-term impact, including fiscal year outlook, given the ongoing recovery.”
The company’s factories have remained open despite halting production and employees continue to be paid.
Prior to the attack, the company was trying to rebuild supply in areas including cat litter, which saw demand boom during the pandemic.
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xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
disinfectants, wipes, cat litter, salad dressing and cleaners:
One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong, can you tell which one of these things is not like the others…
ThePantser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cat litter because everything else is used to make things wet.
TheYear2525@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cleaners because everything else contains the letter “i”.