Mackay Sugar – "The Gentlemen" Ransomware Halts Australia's Sugar Heartland

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An Australian ransomware story you can taste. Mackay Sugar — the country's second-largest raw sugar producer — was hit by the ransomware crew "The Gentlemen" right at the start of the North Queensland crushing season, forcing shutdowns at two of its three mills and leaving 1,300-plus cane-farming families with nowhere to send their harvest. We unpack how an attack on IT systems becomes a physical, region-wide supply-chain problem, why critical infrastructure and agriculture are increasingly in the crosshairs, and what "operational technology" risk really means for Aussie businesses.

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Sources: SecurityWeek; Cyber Daily; The Record; Mackay Sugar incident updates.