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July 17 (Reuters) – Companies worldwide are grappling with a surge in AI-driven cyberattacks and ransomware that steal sensitive data and disrupt operations.

Coca-Cola-owned dairy company Fairlife, LLC, was the latest to join the list on Thursday as it temporarily suspended production operations in the U.S. on Thursday after a third party gained unauthorized access to parts of its systems.

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The White House said earlier in the week it was launching a coordination group bringing together AI developers and critical infrastructure operators to share information on cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified by advanced AI systems and coordinate responses.

Here is a list of U.S. companies that have reported or been affected by cyber incidents this year.

Date Company Details

January 26 Nike  Ransomware group

World Leaks said

on its website

that it had

published 1.4

terabytes of data

from Nike. The

company declined

to comment on the

specifics of its

investigation or

on whether any

ransom was paid.

January 28 Bumble, Match Cyberattacks hit

Group, Crunchbase Bumble, Match

and Panera Bread Group and

Crunchbase,

Bloomberg News

reported, while

Panera Bread

disclosed an

incident involving

contact

information and

notified

authorities.

February 24 Wynn Resorts  Hackers obtained

employee data, the

company said,

prompting an

investigation,

while the

attackers demanded

the equivalent of

about $1.5 million

in bitcoin.

March 11 Stryker An Iranian-linked

hacking group

claimed

responsibility for

a cyberattack on

Stryker that

disrupted order

processing,

manufacturing and

shipments

globally, wiping

remote devices

running the

Windows operating

system, though the

medical device

maker said patient

services and

connected medical

products remained

unaffected.

March 12 Crunchyroll Hackers claimed

they stole

personal data and

8 million of the

subscription-based

anime streaming

service’s support

ticket records,

including 6.8

million unique

email addresses,

BleepingComputer

reported.

March 28 Hasbro  The toymaker said

it was

investigating a

cybersecurity

incident that

involved

unauthorized

access to its

network, took some

systems offline,

and warned the

disruption could

cause order

fulfillment delays

for several weeks.

April 10 OpenAI OpenAI said it

identified a

security issue

after a

third-party

developer tool

called Axios

caused a GitHub

workflow to

download and

execute a

malicious version

of Axios, but said

it found no

evidence that user

data, systems or

intellectual

property were

compromised.

April 13 Take-Two The ShinyHunters

Interactive’s hacking group

Rockstar Games claimed it stole

nearly 80 million

Rockstar Games

business records

by exploiting a

third-party breach

involving

analytics provider

Anodot. Rockstar

said only a

limited amount of

non-material

company

information was

accessed.

May 4 West The medical

Pharmaceutical equipment

Services ​maker said a

cyberattack

involving data

theft and system

lockups disrupted

manufacturing and

logistics

operations

globally,

prompting it to

take systems

offline before

restoring

operations across

its manufacturing,

supply chain and

commercial sites.

May 11 Instructure/Canvas Instructure, the

developer of

Canvas, a widely

used educational

learning

management system,

said a

ShinyHunters-linke

d hack disrupted

access and exposed

student and school

data from nearly

9,000

institutions,

before reaching an

agreement under

which the group

said the stolen

data was deleted

and customers

would not be

extorted.

May 21 Blank Rome The law firm said

a cybercriminal

group posing as

the firm’s IT

department tricked

an attorney into

uploading files,

exposing personal

information of

57,554 current,

former and

prospective

clients, according

to a proposed

class action

lawsuit

May 27 Carnival  The cruise

operator said a

social-engineering

attack compromised

an employee

account, exposing

personal

information

including names,

addresses and

government-issued

identification

numbers, before

the company

blocked the

unauthorized

access and

notified affected

individuals

June 11 Novo Nordisk  The Wegovy maker

said unauthorized

actors copied

information from

its internal IT

systems, including

limited clinical

trial patient

data, prompting an

investigation and

the temporary

shutdown of

certain internal

systems, though it

said core

operations were

unaffected.

June 15 iRhythm Holdings  The medtech firm

said a threat

actor obtained

potentially

sensitive data,

including

proprietary

information and

patient health

information,

through a

social-engineering

attack on

third-party-hosted

business

applications and

later issued a

payment demand,

while the company

said patient care,

medical device

systems and

operations were

unaffected.

June 15 AdaptHealth  The company said a

“threat actor”

stole patient

information and

insurance billing

passwords after a

social-engineering

attack compromised

a third-party

contractor’s

account, gaining

access to

cloud-based

business

applications and

internal patient

management

systems.

June 17 Fortinet  Researchers said a

large-scale

hacking campaign

targeting Fortinet

firewall and VPN

devices

compromised about

75,000 systems

worldwide, leading

to password theft

at Fortune 500

companies and

government

agencies across

more than 15

countries.

July 16 Coca-Cola Co  The beverages

giant said

fairlife

temporarily

suspended U.S.

production

operations after

unauthorized

access to parts of

its systems,

including

production-related

systems, while the

dairy company

investigated the

incident and

worked to restore

affected

operations.

(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai, Sanskriti Shekhar and Neil J Kanatt in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee)

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