Cleaning products company Clorox disclosed the major cybersecurity incident that led to a shutdown of its automated order processing late last year has cost it about $49 million.

After Clorox discovered unauthorized activity on its computer systems beginning Aug. 11, it took its systems offline, hired a cybersecurity consultant, and shut down automated order processing.

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