By Ionut Arghire on May 27, 2021
Japan s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism this week confirmed impact from a data breach at service provider Fujitsu Limited.
Earlier this week, the Japanese multinational provider of IT services and products confirmed it suffered a cyberattack resulting in unauthorized access to ProjectWEB, a tool that allows organizations to share data within and outside their environments.
The company said that it stopped the service, to prevent further unauthorized access, but confirmed that “some of the information entrusted to us by our customers was stolen,” without providing further information on the matter.
Japanese government agencies suffer data breaches after Fujitsu hack
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Offices of multiple Japanese agencies were breached via Fujitsu s ProjectWEB information sharing tool.
Fujitsu states that attackers gained unauthorized access to projects that used ProjectWEB, and stole some customer data.
It is not yet clear if this breach occurred because of a vulnerability exploit, or a targeted supply-chain attack, and an investigation is ongoing.
Attackers accessed at least 76,000 email addresses
Yesterday, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the National Cyber Security Center (NISC) of Japan announced that attackers were able to obtain inside information via Fujitsu s information-sharing tool.
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