The Coca-Cola Company Announces Technology Disruption Involving fairlife Operations

The Coca-Cola Company Announces Technology Disruption Involving fairlife Operations

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Coca-Cola Company today announced that fairlife, LLC, a dairy company owned by Coca-Cola, identified unauthorized access by a third party to a portion of its systems, including its production-related systems, in connection with a ransomware event.

After detecting the issue, the company promptly activated its incident response and business continuity protocols. The company's investigation and assessment of the impact of the incident is ongoing, with the assistance of outside advisors and cybersecurity experts. The company has also notified law enforcement. The full scope, nature and impacts of the incident are not yet known.

Product quality and safety have not been impacted. However, as a result of the incident, production operations at fairlife in the United States are temporarily suspended. fairlife's Canada production operations are not currently impacted.

The company is working diligently to complete the investigation and restore the systems and impacted operations.

About The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company's purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. We sell multiple billion-dollar brands across several beverage categories worldwide. Our portfolio of sparkling soft drink brands includes Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta. Our water, sports, coffee and tea brands include Dasani, smartwater, vitaminwater, Topo Chico, BODYARMOR, Powerade, Costa, Georgia, Fuze Tea, Gold Peak and Ayataka. Our juice, value-added dairy and plant-based beverage brands include Minute Maid, Simply, innocent, Del Valle, fairlife and Santa Clara. We're constantly transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing innovative new products to market. We seek to positively impact people's lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and carbon emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we employ more than 700,000 people, helping bring economic opportunity to local communities worldwide. Learn more at www.coca-colacompany.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Source: The Coca-Cola Company

Released July 16, 2026