Chemical Company, Omnia Holdings, Suffered Cyber Attack
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Chemical company, Omnia Holdings, suffered a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure, officials said.
Omnia Holding Limited is a holding company for a group of companies that produces and supplies fertilizer to the agricultural industry, explosives to the mining industry and industrial chemical products. The group’s operations are located in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The company is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
The company said it was alerted to abnormal activity on its network on March 12 and specialist teams promptly began investigating the incident.