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By Alex Lennane
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 ...
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