2023-11-12 08:10:20
The Australian government held crisis meetings on Sunday following a major cybersecurity incident that continues to block the transport of goods at several key ports in the country operated by the company DP World.
The incident is “serious and ongoing”, indicated Clare O’Neil, Australian Minister of the Interior on her X account (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. “DP World manages nearly 40% of goods entering and leaving our country,” she noted.
Port operator DP World had to interrupt the internet connection at its terminals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle on Friday to prevent “unauthorized access” to its network, a company spokesperson said.
Containers can be unloaded from ships, but the trucks needed to transport them cannot enter or leave terminals, said Blake Tierney, DP World’s Asia Pacific business director.
The group says it has made “significant progress” by collaborating with cybersecurity experts and testing systems “crucial for the resumption of the regular movement of goods”. DP World is working to restore normal operations “as quickly as possible and as safely as possible”, it said, adding that the group is investigating the impact of the incident in parallel.
The Australian Federal Police, for their part, have opened an investigation.
The disruption to port operations “is likely to last several days, rather than several weeks,” according to information provided by the group to the government.
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