Ontario Pork was hacked

Ontario Pork was hacked in October and paid a ransom to get back “some crucial data,” pork board director Arno Schober and chairman John DeBruyn told farmers attending the Zone 3 annual meeting at Elora.

Arno Schober

Andy DeBruyn

DeBruyn said the office is still in the process of updating its information technology systems. 

Schober assured the farmers that there was “no compromise of (their) data”.

At the time of the breach, Tyler Calver, a spokesman for Ontario Pork, told Ontario Farmer that there had not been a hacking and that the loss of website information was an internal issue related to upgrading software.

This year is the first under a revamped governance structure, but it has had little impact on those elected as directors.

Schober was acclaimed for Zone 4 and Tanya and Tara Terpstra for Zones 1 and 2.

Tanya Terpstra

Tara Terpstra

Elections are ongoing and at the annual meeting March 21 in Guelph, three directors at large will be elected.