News / Fears of cyberattack as MSC website goes down

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By Gavin van Marle

10/04/2020

Geneva-headquartered container shipping line MSC could have been the subject of a cyberattack, after its website, msc.com, went down on the eve of the Easter holiday.

The company confirmed on Twitter that “msc.com and myMSC are currently not available as we have experienced a network outage in one of our data centres.

“We are working on fixing the issue. Our services and operations are working as normal,” it added.

SeaIntelligence Consulting partner Lars Jensen wrote in a LinkedIn post today that his sources ...

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