Ransomware attack shuts down mill of Canadian mining firm

Late on Tuesday 27th of December 2022, The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) in British Columbia experienced a cyberattack that resulted in the CMMC’s engineers decided to shut down the mill as a preventative measure to determine the status of its control system, while other processes switched to manual operations.

“The Company’s external and internal IT teams are continuing to assess risks and are actively establishing additional safeguards to mitigate any further risk to the Company” – CMMC.

The announcement also clarified that the cybersecurity incident did not compromise the safety measures or cause any kind of environmental damage and that their main priority at this time is to return to normal operations as soon as possible, limiting the financial impact of the incident.