Responding to the major cyber attack that affected its systems less than one month ago, Maersk announced the implementation of different and further protective measures in its IT systems.
A.P. Moller-Maersk said on 18 July its anti-virus software was not effective against a new type of malware that hit the Danish shipping giant but said further protective measures have now been put in place.
“This virus attack was a previously unseen type of malware, and updates and patches applied to both the (Microsoft) Windows systems and our antivirus (program) were not an effective protection in this particular case,” Maersk said in a statement.
Despite the extensive disruption of the company’s operations and communications by the virus attack, Maersk confirmed that it saw no data breach or data loss.
