https://www.itnews.com.au/news/lion-accidentally-directs-milk-orders-to-sydney-it-security-consultancy-549086
By Ry Crozier
itnews.co.au
Jun 10, 2020
In cyber attack mop-up mistake.
Beverage maker Lion had its Tasmanian customers try to place dairy orders with
a Sydney-based cybersecurity consultancy after publishing the wrong phone
number for customer service following a cyber attack.
The error was corrected by Tuesday night, but not before Cliffside Security
spent the day fielding drink orders in addition to its usual sales calls.
“Today the strangest thing happened. From what I understand, a dairy company
got hacked, and their systems went offline, so they updated their website with
phone numbers for orders, and the last phone number is our Cliffside Security
sales number (a mistake on their side),” Cliffside Security’s Director and
Principal Consultant Adriano Leite said.
“So our number has been ringing the whole day, because of a hack (as usual) but
now we're getting milk orders instead.”
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