MADRID—Spain’s second biggest beer maker Damm halted output at its main brewery outside Barcelona after a cyberattack hit its computer systems earlier this week, a spokesperson said on Friday. The attack hit the brewery on Tuesday night and for a few hours the plant in El Prat de Llobregat, which produces 7 million hectolitres (5.9 million barrels) of beer a year, was “entirely paralyzed”, Olga Vidal, Damm’s head of communications, told Reuters on Friday. “IT services made possible a partial resumption of production and we expect to operate at 100 percent in the coming hours,” she said. She declined to say whether a ransom was demanded of the company or if the maker of Estrella Damm lager had paid anything to the hackers behind the attack. She wouldn’t confirm whether the company had notified the police and local police declined to comment. Damm bottles several other beer brands beside its …
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