Cyberattack Turns Off the Taps at Barcelona’s Damm Brewery

Cyberattack Turns Off the Taps at Barcelona’s Damm Brewery
Boxes with Estrella Damm beer are seen inside a supermarket in Ferrol, Spain, on Nov. 12, 2021. Nacho Doce/Reuters
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MADRID—Spain’s second biggest beer maker Damm halted output at its main brewery outside Barcelona after a cyberattack hit its computer systems earlier this week, a spokesperson said on Friday.

The attack hit the brewery on Tuesday night and for a few hours the plant in El Prat de Llobregat, which produces 7 million hectolitres (5.9 million barrels) of beer a year, was “entirely paralyzed”, Olga Vidal, Damm’s head of communications, told Reuters on Friday.