UNDERGROUND

Copper Mountain shrugs off ransomware attack, gets mining again

PRODUCTION has resumed at Copper Mountain Mining Corporation’s eponymous Copper Mountain mine near Princeton in British Columbia, Canada after a December 27 ransomware attack.

 Copper Mountain Haul Truck

Copper Mountain Haul Truck

The attack led the company to isolate operations, switch to manual processes where it could, and shut down its mill until it could determine the attack's effect on its control system. On January 1 the...

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