Breaches and incidents
Ikegami Tsushinki: servers encrypted, data appearing to be its own posted on dark web site
Ikegami said it received outside information on 21 Sep of a possible cyberattack.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- Ikegami said it received outside information on 21 Sep of a possible cyberattack; on 30 Sep it reported suspected unauthorized external access with “some files stored on the affected servers” encrypted, and on 2 Oct that information it appears to hold was posted on an attacker’s dark web site.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named by the company.
- The internal network remains disconnected with phased restoration; police and authorities consulted and outside specialists engaged.