Maple Leaf Foods hit by cybersecurity incident

Maple Leaf Foods is experiencing a system outage linked to a cybersecurity incident.

Maple Leaf Foods has engaged cybersecurity and recovery experts. According to a company statement, its team of information systems professionals and third-party experts are working diligently with all available resources to investigate the outage and resolve the situation.

The company is executing its business continuity plans as it works to restore the impacted systems. However, it expects that full resolution of the outage will take time and result in some operational and service disruptions.