News / HMM suffers security breach and cyber-attack on its email systems

Yet another ocean carrier has fallen foul to a cyber-attack: this time it is South Korea’s HMM, which today confirmed a virus attack on its email system on 12 June.

“An unidentified security breach was detected, which led to limited access to the email Outlook system in certain areas,” said HMM.

It said that by yesterday, “most of the confirmed damage” had been restored and that no data leakage had been found.

However, it said that as of today, the email servers in ...