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A cyberattack against Clorox last month that shut down factories has created a nationwide shortage of bleach and cat litter::The producer of disinfectants, wipes, cat litter, salad dressing and cleaners said some of its US factories still aren’t making goods

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[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

disinfectants, wipes, cat litter, salad dressing and cleaners:

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong, can you tell which one of these things is not like the others...

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Cat litter because everything else is used to make things wet.

[-] TheYear2525@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Cleaners because everything else contains the letter “i”.

[-] LukeMedia@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Wipes, because it's the only non food item.

[-] TheYear2525@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Challenge accepted

[-] jantin@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

SALAD DRESSING?! Are you Americans going to a restaurant and ask the waiter to bring you a salad with clorox?

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 42 points 11 months ago

Okay, how do you expect to get ranch dressing white? Ranches are dirty.

[-] jantin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

when dressing for a ranch I usually put on worn-out jeans, a leather vest and a wide-brimmed hat, not sure why these things should be white

[-] seeCseas@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I mean, trump was crazy to suggest injecting bleach, but maybe eating it on a side salad helps with covid?

(please don't try this)

[-] Intheflsun@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

If you listen closely, you can hear a Facebook group using your post as research.

[-] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Hidden Valley Ranch is owned by Clorox.

[-] jantin@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

OK so let's get that straight, a chemical cleaning company owns a ranch in some secret valley where they produce salad dressing and no one suspects anything. the US is weird. (\s because irony doesn't always work on Lemmy)

[-] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

:) I love it. Makes total sense to this American lol

[-] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 months ago

Clorox owns Hidden Valley Ranch brand of salad dressings. They also own Burt's Bees cosmetics. I'm unsure which cat litter they own. They also own Kingsford charcoal.

Source: I'm a retail merchandiser who has done several jobs for Clorox the past several months and I've had to run around the store from one department to another for various audits.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

I hope they're not making the salad dressing in the same factory as the one making bleach.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 11 months ago

Eh there's plenty of other nasty stuff in food factories, machines are usually cleaned by pumping caustic soda and nitric acid solutions... ammonia cooling systems...

[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Why do you think Ranch is as white as it is?!

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's marketed as a self-cleaning production facility.

[-] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

Another shortage of bleach you say? I guess we get to double the price again.

[-] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Companies will say anything to raise prices.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

While true every production manager I have met in my life would need multiple dime bags to even be reduced to type A. If a factory isn't producing it is because it can't produce. I have my stories here is one:

Alarm goes off. Manager is demanding to know why. As fast as I can I trace it down to one computer inside a control cabinet. It is plexiglass with a metal frame. Somehow the Ethernet cord has come lose and that is the problem. Can't open the frame since it is locked. He is yelling on the radio for the key. Argument over the radio over who has the key. Looks at me and says

"Are you absolutely certain this problem is from a lose Ethernet cord?"

"Yes"

"Stand back"

He proceeds to start bare handed punching the plexiglass until it breaks open then gives me a death stare. I put the Ethernet cord back in and the alarm goes off.

Saw him the next day with his arm in a sling. Yeah Jesus fucking Christ.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 11 months ago

At least they should be good at wiping their servers clean.

[-] vector_zero@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Like with a cloth or something?

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

Why can’t cyberattacks be directed towards things along the lines of hacktivism?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, where's the Project Mayhem shit of blowing up all the banks to reset everyone to $0 in wealth and debt?

[-] Heikki@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago
[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You mean Todd?

Todd Clorox is attacking the factories with 5G signals from his spaceship, granted to him by the lizard overlords. Here is a crude rendering of said event:

8=====D~~~~~ <- those are the 5G signals.

[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Todd. Stupid Google Keyboard autocorrect, sponsored by lizard people.

[-] ezures@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Damn, Todd Clorox got access the spaceships now? Nowhere is safe.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

How will I stay hydrated now?! pepehands /s

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Not my beloved bleach!! It's my favorite cleaner.

Did you know that it feels slippery due to saponification? It's using your own body oils!

It smells good, it tastes good, AND it makes its own soap. It really is a miracle product.

[-] zoe@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago

Big pharma hard at work

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Clorox says it’s experiencing product shortages nationwide across its categories following last month’s attack on its information-technology systems, and the company projects a “material” impact on its quarterly results.

The producer of disinfectants, wipes, cat litter, salad dressing and cleaners said some of its US factories still aren’t making goods, although the “vast majority” have resumed output.

For now, the company is manually processing orders at some facilities — a task that is usually automated — as it restarts operations.

“It is premature for us to determine longer-term impact, including fiscal year outlook, given the ongoing recovery.”

The company’s factories have remained open despite halting production and employees continue to be paid.

Prior to the attack, the company was trying to rebuild supply in areas including cat litter, which saw demand boom during the pandemic.


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