Cadbury works to get back online

TESTS were carried out at Cadbury’s Claremont factory yesterday to try to get chocolate-making machines back up and running after systems went down on Tuesday night.

Parent company, US food giant Mondelez International, was one of the global companies and private organisations to be struck by a cyber attack earlier in the week.

Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union Tasmanian secretary John Short said tests were being carried out on digital systems in the factory’s chocolate-bar making area and work was continuing to get other machines back online.

A meeting was held at the plant with workers yesterday morning but no definite time frame for when systems, and production, might return to normal had been given.

Mondelez International said the Petya virus had been isolated.

“As part of our global business continuity plans, we are working with outside specialists, including our IT partners and global cyber security agencies and experts to return to normalised operations as soon as possible,” the company said on its website.

“For our business customers, we remain committed to deliver our products and are working to minimise the impact to short-term deliveries. For our consumers, we do not expect any impact outside of more limited communication with the company at this time.

“We will continue to post updates to our corporate website and social media channels until this situation has been fully resolved.”

Cyber security experts yesterday were scrambling to find out who was behind the attack.