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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Cybersecurity Incident at United Natural Foods Impacting Orders
United Natural Foods Inc. has taken some of its systems offline while it investigates 'unauthorized activity' with outside cybersecurity help, it said Monday in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company took the systems down and brought in forensics experts after noticing the intrusion on June 5, it said. This has caused business disruptions including affecting the firm's ability to fulfill and distribute customer orders, the filing said. United Natural Foods also has notified law enforcement about the unauthorized activity, the filing said.
ABC News
14-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
Businesses take Transport NSW to High Court over light rail build
A dispute over the impact of Sydney Light Rail construction on businesses in Sydney's CBD will be thrashed out in the High Court in Canberra today. It's a hot topic, with light rail projects in various stages of development from Parramatta to Canberra and the Gold Coast guaranteeing the case will be closely watched. Disruption in Canberra's city has this week prompted a support package to encourage customers back into the city, with some free parking, and eased charges for liquor licenses. Construction of Sydney's light rail from Circular Quay to Randwick and beyond began in 2015, and ran until 2020, a year behind schedule. The final price tag was $2.96 billion — more than $1.3 billion over its initial cost estimate. The government always contemplated some kind of compensation case from businesses that faced serious disruptions from the construction. Today, lawyers for the lead companies in a class action, Hunt Leather, and a trust that ran a restaurant will tell the High Court they were seriously affected, particularly when the project was delayed. At the heart of the case is the notion of 'private nuisance' and whether the disruption from the light rail construction was unreasonable, given the noise and dust from jackhammers, diggers and large vehicles, as well as the disruption from hoardings. The companies won in the first instance, winning a total of around $4 million. That decision appeared to pave the way for compensation for up to 300 other retailers. But an appeal dashed any hopes of that. A key issue in the case was that the light rail project had been established under law, which stymied any chance of liability for the disruption. The initial ruling found once the delays began, the project became a 'nuisance' and the interference became unreasonable. But the New South Wales Court of Appeal found Transport for New South Wales could never have foreseen the delays, and a project authorised by law couldn't be an 'actionable nuisance' even if it ran for an extra month or two. Today, the businesses will ask the High Court to find that is wrong. Transport for New South Wales says in its submissions to the High Court the businesses have failed to show when (if ever) the disruption of the legitimate work of building the light rail began to be unreasonable, and a 'private nuisance'. "In an attempt to evade that critical failure, the appellants seek to have this court endorse a novel approach to the tort of nuisance in which determinative significance would be given to an assessment, in the abstract, as to whether a defendant's use of land is common or ordinary," the submissions say. But lawyers for the businesses involved have told the High Court it is the government's case that has departed from the well established legal practice. "…subject to any applicable defence, a defendant's use of land will be a nuisance if it substantially interferes with a plaintiff's enjoyment of their land and is not a use which is common or ordinary," the businesses' submissions say. The businesses are also hoping to recoup money to pay a litigation funder that wasn't included in the original order for compensation. The hearing is listed for two days.
