It was a June afternoon in Copenhagen in 2017 when employees at A.P. Moller Maersk, a global shipping and services conglomerate, started to notice unusual behavior on their laptops. Computers turned themselves off, then rebooted. Some flashed warnings in black and red lettering: “repairing file system.” Others declared “Oops, your important files are encrypted” as though they had been hacked individually and demanded $300 worth of bitcoin to decrypt them.
None of the 88,000 global employees could have imagined what was about to follow. As row after row of PC screens across the organization turned black, the IT organization slowly woke up to what ...
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