2017 Maersk Group / Damco — NotPetya business continuity impact (freight forwarding unit; Jun)
Data compromised
Operational/process continuity loss; any transactional data exposure secondary to estate-wide destruction in public narratives
Technical writeup
Damco was the international freight-forwarding and supply-chain arm of the Maersk group during the June 2017 NotPetya event that crippled Maersk’s central Active Directory and dependent enterprise applications. Public Maersk post-mortems and supply-chain reporting described customer-facing shipping and logistics outages spanning container line, terminals, and forwarding workflows—so Damco customer operations experienced disruption aligned with the parent incident rather than a wholly separate intrusion. This BreachHistory row provides a forwarding-specific slug anchor; causality is the group-wide NotPetya destruction wave.
Root cause
NotPetya / ExPetr outbreak impacting shared Maersk corporate IT dependencies (per group disclosures and industry analyses)