Shipping firm Maersk investigates IT security incident

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COPENHAGEN, Nov 11 : Danish shipping company Maersk said on Wednesday it was investigating an IT security incident involving unauthorised access and data extraction from one of its local legacy systems.

• Maersk said in a statement its findings so far strongly suggested that no sensitive data had been disclosed

• "The incident is isolated to a local system, and we have found no indication that there has been any impact on other Maersk systems or customer and partner systems that connect to Maersk," the company said

• Maersk does not anticipate disruption to operations for customers

• Customers can continue to use Maersk platforms to book and manage their shipments as usual, it added

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