The extent of the cyberattack was so bad that it just didn’t seem possible that something so destructive could have happened so quickly.
“I remember that morning – laptops were sporadically restarting and it didn’t appear to be a cyberattack at the time but very quickly the true impact became apparent,” said Lewis Woodcock, head of cybersecurity compliance at Moller-Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping firm.
“The severity for me was really taken in when walking through the offices and seeing banks and banks of screens, all black. There was a moment of disbelief, initially, at the sheer ferocity and the speed and scale of the attack and the impact it had.”
