Baraniuk, Chris. "How Hackers Are Targeting the Shipping Industry." BBC, 18 Aug.
2017, www.bbc.com/news/technology-40685821. Accessed 19 Aug. 2017.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40685821
Cyberkeel, a technology company, investigated email activity at an average sized shipping firm and found that the firm's system had been hacked with a small virus. Every time an email was sent from one of the firm's fuel suppliers asking for a payment, the virus would change the bank account number being sent by the supplier's before the email was read. Maersk, the shipping firm, made an official statement saying that the hacking will cost them as much as three hundred million in profits. There was also instances of pirates hacking into ships manifest to know which cargo to find and then board the ship and locate the barcode specific item they were looking for. Furthermore, a targeted attack on a ship's broadcasting system could help pirates locate a ship to raid.
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