# From Wired - The Story of the Cyber Attack that shut down Maersk

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**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/from-wired-the-story-of-the-cyber-attack-that-shut-down-maersk/49085 "2018-08-31T23:25:07Z")\
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[The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History](https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/)

> “Maersk was like a black hole,” Fernández remembers with a sigh. “It was just a clusterfuck.”
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> In fact, it was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.