News / IT problem at Maersk not another cyber-attack, says HQ

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Maersk has denied that a communications outage today was a new cyber-attack.

The shipping line confirmed it had experienced “IT network issues impacting the connectivity across AP Møller-Maersk”.

“This means employees are experiencing issues with logging-on to the central IT network and our service centres, and online booking functionalities such as maersk.com are affected.”

But the spokesperson added: “We have no reason to believe that this is a cyber-attack.”

He later added that the network issues were “related to one of our external network ...