Brews, Booze, And Data Breaches

Friday afternoon, news sources reported that Molson Coors Beverage Company notified the Securities and Exchange Commission about an ongoing data breach that had delayed and disrupted, "the Company's business, including its brewery operations, production, and shipments."

This follows a series of hacks through the Microsoft Email Exchange software, and after the Campari Group fell victim to a data each last November.

It is becoming increasingly clear that American companies of all sizes and industries are targets for (and vulnerable to) this kind of cybersecurity hacking, both directly and through vendors. And beverage companies have been no exception to this trend. The all-in business and legal costs associated with such breaches regularly reach into the millions of dollars according to the Ponemon Institute's most recent study.