[spaceknarf]

The parallels with the "Daemon" in Daniel Suarez' novel are scary.

small spoiler ahead

This Daemon is an AI that keeps data of big companies hostage - it will destroy all that company's data if the company does not pay protection money, or if the company involves law enforcement.

Because a lot of companies in the novel don't stick to the AI's rules, these companies go down with the exact same symptoms as Maersk is now having:

  - unable to do business
  - unclear what happened
  - declining stock prices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)

[timje1]

This is also a fabulously entertaining novel.