A cyberattack on the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry website may have resulted in data on 12,139 members being leaked.
The chamber said the hack appears to have been caused by a malicious virus attached to an email sent to one of the organization's computers on May 11, but wasn't discovered until May 22, Fuji TV reported. Data leaked included the names and e-mail addresses of business participants in seminars held by the chamber. No data related to bank accounts or other sensitive information was leaked, chamber officials said.
Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Hideo Takano offered a formal apology on behalf of the entire chamber during a press conference on Wednesday. "We offer our most sincere apologies to all those who have been affected by this attack, and to all those who we have caused to worry about the safety of their information.
So far, investigators are calling the incident a "target attack" because it appears as though the virus was spread after being intentionally attached to an email sent to the chamber. The recent cyberattack on the Japan Pension Service was carried out in a similar fashion, leading key officials to call for strengthened countermeasures against such attacks.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
So, let me guess. Somebody received a private email on the main server and clicked on a link to expose the whole network. It was probably one of those, "Hello, I love you. Click on the link for more information" and some twit actually did. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the network was running XP either.
Aly Rustom
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice....
Igor Hideo
What about that cyber police group the government started a few months ago?
CoconutE3
And they want to start pension number system?!?