Shipping company MSC reportedly hit by a cyberattack

According to Le Marin and other online sources, the shipping company MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company), the world’s second-largest container shipping line, was reportedly affected by a cyber incident that disrupted its electronic booking system known as “MyMSC.” The incident occurred at a particularly difficult time, as the global shipping industry was already dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Email services appeared to remain operational, but the company initially released little information beyond indicating that the disruption was likely related to a network outage in one of its data centers.

We are sorry to inform you that https://t.co/gg5flboFcj and myMSC are currently not available as we’ve experienced a network outage in one of our data centers. We are working on fixing the issue.
— MSC Cargo (@MSCCargo), April 10, 2020

After several hours of investigation, the shipping company confirmed that the incident was linked specifically to its headquarters in Geneva. As a precautionary measure, servers located in Switzerland were shut down while a team of specialists worked to restore normal operations.

UPDATE on network outage issue affecting http://msc.com and myMSC. After several hours of investigations, we can now confirm that the issue is related to our Headquarters in Geneva only.
— MSC Cargo (@MSCCargo)