Nothing less than 4.000 servers and 45.000 Computers
affected by Notpetya made this powerful company, one of the largest
Global container carriers, had to reinstall practically
the entire IT system infrastructure, apart from servers and
computers had to be reinstalled approximately 2.500 Applications. All the
process was carried out in record time of 10 days.
The chairman of the company's board of directors, Jim
Hagemann Snabe explained that this process would normally have taken 6 months, by
which he praised his staff for the speed with which they solved the problem.
According to Hageman, Maersk probably wasn't the target
direct attack, that started as a seemingly legitimate update
of an accounting program used by law by all companies that
operate in Ukraine. Maersk has operations in Ukraine, so your branch
in that country it was also affected by the attack. Also a company
Argentina lost close to 15 millions of dollars for the same attack.
The Executive explained that the situation was an important one, and
Expensive, Wake-up call for an organization like Maersk. As he has
Transcended, Maersk lost between 250 and 300 million dollars due to the attack
NotPetya.
Hence, it stops considering computer security
as a relatively minor complement and more resources are allocated to
This section. In the immediate future, those companies whose security is of
a higher grade will have a better chance of not losing their assets to
Cyberattacks.