At least 2 million sets of private data stolen in latest Japan cyber attacks
The victims consist of 69 private companies, 49 government agencies and their affiliates, and 22 universities, the Japan Times reported. Among the remaining 65 organizations, 40 said they discovered on their own that they had been targeted. The Japan Pension Service, operator of the country’s public pension program, incurred the largest data theft – about 1.25 million sets of ID numbers, names, addresses and birthdates.
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Confectionery company Chateraise Co. in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, said some 210,000 personal data sets were possibly leaked, while model manufacturer Tamiya Inc. in the city of Shizuoka said 107,000 may have been stolen. Thirty-two organizations were confirmed to have come under DDoS attacks, or distributed denial of service, which are intended to paralyze a targeted website by overwhelming it with much higher than normal traffic from multiple sources.
The DDoS attacks are suspected to have been carried out against the official website of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by the Anonymous hacker group in a sign of protest at Japan’s plan to resume research whaling in Antarctica. The website became temporarily inaccessible last month.
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