Pirates hack shipping firm's systems to plan attacks and steal cargo: Report

A report by U.S.-based Verizon Enterprise Solutions' RISK Team has found that pirates carefully targeted cargo on vessels of a "global shipping conglomerate," after hacking their systems, reported Fox News.

"These pirates began to attack shipping vessels in an extremely targeted and timely fashion," the report said. The crew discovered that the pirates had targeted specific cargo containers. The company saw that pirates would board a vessel, locate by bar code specific crates, steal the contents of the crate and depart, said the report.

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