Panasonic Breached in Attack

November 29, 2021

INCIDENT

Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Corporation confirmed its network was illegally accessed by a third party on November 11 and data ended up accessed in the breach, officials said.
As soon as the electronics giant discovered the breach, it initiated an internal investigation and discovered some data on a file server had been accessed during the intrusion. Panasonic spokesperson Dannea DeLisser said the breach began on June 22 and ended on November 3 — and the unauthorized access was first detected on November 11.

Incident Date

November 11, 2021

Location

Japan

Estimated Cost


No cost values disclosed.

Victims

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified