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Attack Shuts Down Production at Lens Maker Hoya

March 30, 2024

Production of several of Hoya Corp.’s products shut down after a system failure, which was most likely the result of “unauthorized access” to its servers, company officials said Thursday.
Japanese lens maker Hoya said the company discovered a system discrepancy in one of its overseas offices Saturday and confirmed the disruption despite its efforts to isolate affected servers.
“The day before yesterday (March 30), we learned that the Group’s head quarter and several of its business divisions have experienced an IT system incident,” the company said in a statement they issued Monday. “The Company will work closely with each of its business divisions and sites, as well as with outside experts, to identify the nature and scope of the incident and to restore the situation as soon as possible.”

Fujitsu Caught in Cyberattack

March 15, 2024

Japanese multinational information and communications technology giant, Fujitsu Limited suffered a cyberattack. The company reported the incident March 15 when officials said they found malware on multiple computers within the organization.

“We confirmed the presence of malware on multiple work computers at our company, and as a result of an internal investigation, we discovered that files containing personal information and customer information could be illegally taken out,” the company said in a statement. Fujitsu is the world’s sixth largest IT services provider, with 124,000 employees and had revenues of $23.9 billion.

Japanese Manufacturer Fujikura Global Hacked by Lockbit Gang.

January 12, 2023

The hacker group LockBit 3.0 has claimed Fujikura Global, the Japanese manufacturer of electrical and electronic products company, as its victim. A company issued press release confirms the attack: “We have confirmed that our group company in the Kingdom of Thailand received unauthorized access to its network by a third party on January 12, 2023.”

The threat actor claimed to have breached the corporate headquarters of the Japanese company and infiltrated each of its far-flung outposts around the world. The hacker group claims that the compromised data consists of a staggering 718GB of confidential and critical information pilfered from the company’s digital infrastructure. The purloined data encompasses a vast array of valuable assets, such as financial records, internal reports, certificates, correspondence, extensive internal documentation, tables, employee personal information, and much more.

Japan’s Space Agency (JAXA) Hit by Cyberattack

November 29, 2023

Japan’s space agency was hit by cyberattacks even as hackers failed to access sensitive information about rockets and satellite operations, a spokesperson revealed Wednesday (Nov 29). “There was a possibility of unauthorized access by exploiting the vulnerability of network equipment,” the spokesperson at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was quoted as saying by Reuters. However, the official declined to elaborate on details, such as when did the attack take place.

JAXA got to know about the attack after an external organisation conducted an internal audit, as per the spokesperson.

In August, China-backed hackers were held responsible by Japan for a months-long cyberattack campaign, in which Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) was targeted.

A spokesperson for the JAXA said a detailed investigation is going on into the hacking attempt and it was not revealed who could be orchestrating this.

Japanese Global Lingerie Producer, Wacoal, Hit by Cyberattack

September 19, 2023

The European arm of the Japanese lingerie business Wacoal had been hit by a cyber attack affecting ordering systems, websites and phone systems.
Its websites being taken offline and indie stockists being unable to place orders.

Operational Impact at Electronics Company Alps Alpine Group

September 10, 2023

ALPS’ North American production operations and delivery was impacted by a ransomware incident on their systems. ALP promptly shut off the network connection of servers and other devices infected and reported they “are still working to restore equipment and production functions. At present, with the exception of our production bases in Mexico, we have resumed production and delivery with alternative methods for system failures.”

North American employee data was reportedly leaked.

This follows on the heels of a separate attack on July 6, 2023, where an attack exfiltrated data on 16,000 employees.

Toyota T-Connect Source Code Exposed on Github for 5 Years

September 15, 2022

Toyota Motor Corporation customers’ personal information may have been exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years. The T-Connect site source code was mistakenly published on GitHub. The code contained an access key to the data server that stored customer email addresses and management numbers.

Toyota T-Connect is the automaker’s official connectivity app that allows owners of Toyota cars to link their smartphone with the vehicle’s infotainment system.

Toyota Databreach for Ten Years Exposes Car Location Data of over 2M Customers

April 17, 2023

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. “It was discovered that part of the data that Toyota Motor Corporation entrusted to Toyota Connected Corporation to manage had been made public due to misconfiguration of the cloud environment,” reads the notice (machine translated). No customers are believed to be at risk of criminals tracking down a user’s car, as they would be difficult to track without knowing a target vehicle’s VIN.

This incident exposed the information of customers who used Toyota’s in-car smart service T-Connect for voice assistance, customer service support, car status and management, and on-road emergency help between January 2, 2012, and April 17, 2023.

Japanese Bicycle Manufacturer Shimano hit by Lockbit Gang

November 3, 2023

World-leading bicycle part manufacturer Shimano has suffered a major cyber attack. 4.5 terabytes of sensitive data breached including employee passport data, financial documents and confidential diagrams.

LockBit gave Shimano a 5 November deadline to pay ransom, to which it appears Shimano refused to pay, as the hacking group has listed the company’s data as published. Shimano is yet to issue a statement on the breach, but responding to media inquiries, the company said: “This is an internal matter at Shimano, and we cannot comment on anything at this time.”

Medusa Ransomware Gang Demands $8M Ransom from Toyota

November 16, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) has confirmed that it detected unauthorized access on some of its systems in Europe and Africa after Medusa ransomware claimed an attack on the company. The Medusa ransomware gang listed TFS to its data leak site on the dark web, demanding a payment of $8,000,000 to delete data allegedly stolen from the Japanese company. The threat actors gave Toyota 10 days to respond, with the option to extend the deadline for $10,000 per day. While Toyota Finance did not confirm if data was stolen in the attack, the threat actors claim to have exfiltrated files and threatened that the data will be leaked if a ransom is not paid.

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