{"id":1556,"date":"2021-07-23T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2021\/07\/23\/cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:51:32","slug":"cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/africa\/cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 22 July, Transnet SOC Ltd said in a statement released on Twitter that it was experiencing \u201cdisruption\u201d on its IT network that prevented container terminals from operating. While Reuters said it had seen an email stating a cyber attack has disrupted container operations at the Port of Cape Town, the disruption has been confirmed as widespread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransnet has identified and isolated the source of the disruption to its IT systems, and technical teams continue to work around the clock to ensure that the impact remains minimal,\u201d said Transnet in a statement on 23 July.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing, the Transnet and Transnet Port Terminals websites appeared to be down.<\/p>\n<p>Transnet said it is prioritising the export of time-sensitive reefer containers.<\/p>\n<p>It added: \u201cIn Richards Bay, manual operations continue. In the Eastern Cape, the East London and PE Container and Auto Terminals are working manually. The Ngqura Container Terminal continues to be impacted by high swells. This also applies to the Cape Town Container Terminal. All other terminals in the Western Cape are working manually.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cyber attack that brought container operations to a standstill in South Africa has been contained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}