Meat giant JBS pays almost £8m ransom to hackers after cyber attack |

The world’s largest meat processing company has paid a ransom worth $11m (£7.8m) to hackers behind a cyber attack on its computer systems.

JBS – which produces almost a quarter of America’s beef – confirmed it handed over the funds on Wednesday.

It comes after the Brazil-based company revealed on 31 May how its network had been targeted.

The FBI has attributed the ransomware attack to a Russian-speaking gang, REvil, and has…