[BreachExchange] Japan says defence data possibly breached

[Destry Winant]

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/japan-says-defence-data-possibly-breached-537839

After cyber attacks on Mitsubishi Electric.

The Japanese defence ministry said late on Monday that sensitive data
on defence equipment may have been breached as a result of cyber
attacks on Mitsubishi Electric, a major supplier of the country's
defence and infrastructure systems.

The company has told the ministry that potentially stolen data
included requirements for defence equipment that the ministry
specified for contract bidders in October 2018, the ministry said in a
statement.

The ministry said it was still in the process of investigating the
security impact of the potential leak. Mitsubishi Electric did not win
the contract in the auction.

Mitsubishi Electric initially denied the possibility of a breach of
sensitive defence and infrastructure data when it first reported on
the 200-megabyte cyber attacks by a third party on January 20.

But subsequent checks at the company revealed that the defence
ministry's information that required special care was included in data
potentially stolen by the attacks, Mitsubishi Electric said in a
separate statement on Monday.

The company has said it first discovered the cyber attacks in June
last year, more than half a year before it disclosed them to the
public.