The Atlanta beverage giant shut down U.S. production of its dairy brand Fairlife last week after a ransomware attack.
Fairlife, which sells filtered milk and protein shakes, is a top brand in Coca-Cola’s portfolio, surpassing $1 billion in annual retail sales in 2022. (Dorothea Degen/AP)
A known hacker group is claiming responsibility for a ransomware attack that shut down the U.S. production of Coca-Cola’s dairy brand Fairlife last week.
On a dark-web site not accessible through a standard web browser, a group calling itself Anubis took credit for the attack. Anubis said it locked Fairlife’s servers and threatened to leak 1 terabyte of confidential data unless its demands were met, though it did not post proof it was behind the breach.
The group did not specify a ransom amount in its post, saying only a “token agreement is all it takes” and setting a deadline for the morning of Monday, July 27.
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A screenshot from a website posted by the group Anubis, claiming responsibility for the ransomware attack on Coca-Cola’s dairy brand Fairlife. This was captured Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
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Amy Wenk is the consumer brands reporter for the AJC.
Mirtha Donastorg is a reporter on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s business team focusing on Black wealth, entrepreneurship, and minority-owned businesses as well as innovation at Atlanta’s HBCUs.
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