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French container shipping line CMA CGM has confirmed it is the latest victim of a cyber attack, after its website and some those of its subsidiaries went down over the weekend.

However, the group’s corporate website, cmacgm-group.com, was working and carried a message on its homepage.

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  • Mike

    September 28, 2020 at 1:51 pm

    No its not business as usual at all … website down, rate requests unanswered, no idea as to whether I can book by e-mail while website is down …. actually, maybe it is business as usual …..

    • Tom

      September 28, 2020 at 2:29 pm

      Maybe they can use their Felixstowe surcharge to improve their IT defences.

      • Anony Mouse

        September 28, 2020 at 6:22 pm

        5 eur per teu Low Tech Surcharge will be collected on all global trades starting q4.

  • Flosten

    September 28, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    Not sure if true, but I heard they were hit with ransomware just like Maersk was, and it was not DDOS.

  • Anony Mouse

    September 28, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    If biz as usual why are they incapable of releasing BLs, quoting rates, etc. PR nonsense.

  • Kwaku Duah-Anane

    September 29, 2020 at 9:32 am

    The increase in technology has it’s negative side effects and it is about time measures are put in place stamp down the tide.

  • Carl Aspital

    October 04, 2020 at 10:22 am

    Good morning
    Despite CMA CGM failure to protect their own IT systems adequately they are charging rent demurrage and lolo on deliveries they failed to make. Our customers will not believe us when we tell them!

    This needs press attention and publicity

    Thank you

    Carl.

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