FOOD supplier Royal Foods, who has a facility in Bassendean, has been hit by a cyber-attack as an unauthorised third party accessed their internal IT early in July.

A Royal Foods spokesperson confirmed with Echo News that the incident was being investigated and any stakeholders would be notified and provided support and guidance if affected by the leak.

“Royal Foods is investigating a recent incident in which an unauthorised third party accessed elements of our internal IT environment associated with administrative functions,” they said.

“As soon as we became aware of this incident, we enacted our incident response plan and began work to ensure the security of our systems and determine what happened.

“We are engaging with external IT and cyber security experts to assist with our response to the incident.

“We would like to assure you that this environment has been isolated, and we are conducting the necessary checks across our broader network to ensure the security of our systems.

“We have now become aware of some online activity involving the company being named online alongside indications that they have possession of some data relating to Royal Foods.”

A ransomware group named The Gentlemen listed Royal Foods in their recent post, claiming ownership of the breach.

The group had also breached Mackay Sugar’s cybersecurity in June, shutting down two of its sugar mills.

“We would like to assure our stakeholders that we are investigating this activity as a priority,” the Royal Foods spokesperson said.

“If we detect that personal or confidential information was involved in this incident, we will contact impacted parties as required to provide support and guidance.

“We have notified the relevant authorities including the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

“We are also working with experts from across the cyber security industry and have sophisticated monitoring in place to detect any developments.”