Tokyo MOU Port State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region belatedly reports Cyberattack in 2022

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The Tokyo MOU, the international body that coordinates port state control across the Pacific region, reports that it likely sustained a damaging cyberattack in July 2022, two months before it launched a concentrated inspection campaign. It is extremely unfortunate that the Tokyo MOU PSC database, APCIS, suffered an outage in July 2022 due to the unforeseen reason, likely a cyber-attack. "Taking the lesson from this incident, the Tokyo MOU will pay higher attention to the matter of cyber-risks and take all possible measures to enhance cyber security to prevent [a] recurrence," the agency said in a statement.

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