Maritime Shipping Line Under Attack

The shipping industry continues to be the target of cyber criminals, with South Korea’s HMM becoming the latest major carrier to report an attack on its systems.  This cyber attack that has continued to affect its email systems outside of the US and Europe but has not inhibited its ability to manage sales and bookings. 

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

HMM report that  four days after the virus was discovered that the email system is gradually resuming., claiming that no information or data has been lost and that “most of the confirmed damage” had been restored. However, while no data leakage has been detected, HMM admit that its email servers in all areas except the America and Europe “remain impacted”.

HMM recommended shipping organisations in the regions still affected to contact their local HMM agency offices via telephone for bookings and other inquiries.

 “Except for email, systems and functions are fully operational, attributed to the independent cloud-based system.... “The email system is gradually resuming and our IT planning team is continuing the investigation to prevent further security accidents.”according to HMM. 

HMM joins other major carriers in becoming the target of cyber criminals. Last year, CMA CGM was struck by an invasive ransomware attack that took the company’s systems down, disrupting bookings and other systems. It took the French carrier more than a week to recover, with some parts of its systems remaining down for additional days. At the same time, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) also suffered an attack that took some of its meeting capabilities offline.

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