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DP World Australia

10 Nov 2023 · National · Transport & Logistics
Data Breach CRITICAL ✓ Verified

What happened

Major maritime logistics operator DP World Australia abruptly suspended landside operations across container terminals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Fremantle following a critical network intrusion leveraging the CitrixBleed vulnerability. The incident crippled roughly 40% of the nation's incoming and outgoing maritime freight, stranding 30,000 containers. While internet systems were intentionally disconnected to isolate the breach and corporate network data exfiltration was confirmed, operational port management software was successfully insulated from ransom encryption.

Incident details

Organisation
DP World Australia
Date
10 Nov 2023
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
CRITICAL
Sector
Transport & Logistics
State
National
Records affected
Unknown
Threat actor
Unknown

Source

ia.acs.org.au ↗
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