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Says it 'strongly' suspects attack limited to legacy system, and that nothing sensitive is at risk

Shipping behemoth A.P. Moller-Maersk says it is investigating "an IT security incident" involving the potential theft of data from a legacy system.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Denmark-based shipping, cargo, and logistics giant confirmed it immediately launched an investigation into the attack and the affected system was secured.

"Our findings so far strongly suggest no sensitive data has been disclosed," the company said .

"The incident is isolated to a local system, and we have found no indication that there has been any impact on other Maersk systems or customer and partner systems that connect to Maersk through integrations such as APIs and EDI."

Maersk described the legacy local system as one "from a previous acquisition," and said it does not expect the attack to have an effect on operations.

Customers were reassured that they can continue to use Maersk platforms to manage their…