Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Se­nior Re­porter

ot­to.car­ring­ton@cnc3.co.tt

Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Lim­it­ed is the lat­est lo­cal com­pa­ny to fall vic­tim to a cy­ber­at­tack.

Of­fi­cials of the com­pa­ny, lo­cat­ed at Or­ange Grove Es­tate, Trinci­ty, con­firmed that their op­er­a­tions had been af­fect­ed by a ran­somware at­tack. They have not yet de­ter­mined whether the hack­er gained ac­cess to da­ta and oth­er sen­si­tive com­pa­ny in­for­ma­tion.

A screen­shot of one of the com­pa­ny’s com­put­ers shows a ran­som no­tice warn­ing that Blue Wa­ters’ da­ta will be re­leased on the dark web.

Blue Wa­ters CEO Do­minic Hadeed said com­pa­ny of­fi­cials are still as­sess­ing the cy­ber­at­tack and have tak­en the nec­es­sary ac­tions.

“Our au­to­mat­ed or­der­ing and de­liv­ery ca­pa­bil­i­ties are now back to nor­mal,” he said.

“Once we know more about how it hap­pened, we will be com­mu­ni­cat­ing in­ter­nal­ly and with our busi­ness part­ners ac­cord­ing­ly.”

Hadeed said in the cur­rent land­scape, cy­ber­at­tacks have be­come com­mon­place and the com­pa­ny is com­mit­ted to in­creas­ing in­vest­ments in cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty.

Dig­i­tal strate­gist Keron Rose post­ed on so­cial me­dia about the hack of the re­gion­al bev­er­age com­pa­ny and hint­ed at the pos­si­ble leak­age of in­for­ma­tion.

In re­cent months there have been cy­ber­at­tacks on lo­cal com­pa­nies and their re­gion­al sub­sidiaries, in­clud­ing Massy Stores, TSTT, Uni­com­er Lim­it­ed and the South­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA).