The it system of the British Clarksons are hit by attack computer science



An other primary society of the field of the shipping has denounced attacks to own computer science systems. After the caused problems this summer to the Network of application computers and software of the company of navigation Maersk Line, world leader in the segment of the container, with damages that the society being profitable famous the results of its last quarterly budget has estimated pairs to 250-300 million dollars; today the Clarksons Londoner, company of advising and services for the industry of the shipping, has communicated to have quickly attacks computer science with the access non-authorized to the it system of the society.

Clarksons has specified that the access non-authorized is realized through a single account user who now is disabilitato. Specifying that the company has put in existence ulterior security measures in order to prevent that an analogous incident can be verified in future, the London society has reassured customers and shareholders emphasizing that this incident has not influenced on own activity and has specified that is working with the police forces in order to enlighten on the episode and with own lawyers in order to adopt, if necessary, all the measures apt to preserve the confidentiality of the information and the data. Moreover Clarksons has announced of being about to directly contacting the customers potentially interested from the event.

"Nowadays - it has evidenced the managing director of the Clarksons, Andi Case - the problems legacies to computer science safety are to the first place in the agendas of many companies of the digital and commercial panorama and, although our numerous efforts, have quickly this attack criminal. As with justice one expects to us, we are working to tightened contact with the specialists of the police and with the experts for safety of the data in order to go to any length to the aim to enlighten on the incident and in order to establish what we can make in order protect our customers now and in future. We hope that, with the time - it has added Houses - we will be able to share the lessons learned with our customers in order to help them to prevent that same they of are victims. Meantime I hope that our customers comprise that we are not put under scacco by criminals and would want sincerely to apologize for any worry this incident can have comprehensibly raised".