News / Nagoya port reopens following crippling cyber attack

Nabeta Pier in Nagoya Port – credit Port of Nagoya

Operations at Japan’s busiest port Nagoya resumed this afternoon, local time, after an outage of more than 48 hours, following an alleged Russian ransomware attack. 

The Nagoya Harbor Transportation Association said that Nagoya United Terminal System, which operates the port’s five container terminals, had its operations restored at 7.30am today, but the full recovery of data lost in the cyber attack was achieved only in the afternoon. 

Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest carmaker, and a major user of the port, said ...