Good morning. Our current geopolitical tensions have finally reached one of James Bond’s go-to bottles.
An August ransomware attack on the Stoli Group, which makes the Soviet-born vodka once known as Stolichnaya, disabled several internal systems and helped push its U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy. (No financial data, no repaying debts. No repaying debts…)
The company, which changed its name in 2022 to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, doesn’t expect to be back online until early next year. As 007 says in A View to a Kill: “Vodka, rather shaken. And one microchip.” —Andrew Nusca
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