Maersk hit by cyber breach involving legacy system

Danish shipping giant Maersk has verified a cyber intrusion in which attackers gained access to an older system and extracted data.

The Copenhagen-based group said on Wednesday that it is investigating an IT security incident involving unauthorised access and data extraction from one of its local legacy systems.

“We take cyber security and data protection very seriously and would like to keep our customers informed about the incident.”

According to the carrier, the event concerned a local legacy system obtained via an earlier acquisition.

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