Russian Alcohol Industry Disrupted by Cyberattack on Government-run Tracking System
A volunteer hacker group coordinated by Ukraine successfully disrupted aspects of the Russian alcohol industry by targeting EGAIS, a government-run digital accounting system for tracking alcohol production and sales in Russia. Several private companies reported operational disruptions because EGAIS was unavailable.
-The glitch resulted in the suspension of operations at the Moscow Brewing Company. The MPC plant, with a capacity of 80 million decaliters per year and bottling approximately 90,000 cans per hour, suspended production on May 5.
-Fort (a wine trading company) — reportedly failed to upload about 70% of its transaction invoices during the outage, causing shipment delays.
-Ladoga — another wine producer/distributor, also experienced significant backlogs in processing documents.
-Other market participants have anonymously reported production shutdowns.