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UK supermarket distributor suffers ransomware attack

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67% Informative

Logistics firm Peter Green Chilled supplies supermarkets including Tesco , Sainsbury 's, Lidl and Aldi .

One of its customers, Black Farmer founder Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones , said pallets containing thousands of his products could go to waste.

Ransomware attack is where hackers encrypt a victim's data and lock them out of computer systems.

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53

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41

Neutral language

78

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

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short-lived

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