Hackers compromised Japanese government offices

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  1. hawki

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    "Threat actors have breached the offices of multiple Japanese agencies after they have gained access to projects that uses the Fujitsu ‘s ProjectWEB information sharing tool.

    ProjectWEB is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for enterprise collaboration and file-sharing that was provided by Fujitsu.

    Fujitsu confirmed the security breach... At the time of this writing, it is not clear how the hackers have compromised the service neither who is behind the attacks..."

    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/118318/data-breach/fujitsu-projectweb-hack.html
     
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    "Tokyo Olympics organizers' data swept up in Fujitsu hack

    The organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics is the latest victim of a breach in which hackers broke into a Japanese government contractor’s data-sharing tool.

    The breach affected some 170 people who participated in a cybersecurity drill ahead of the Olympic Games next month...

    The Japanese government’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), which hosted the cybersecurity drill, confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that the hack had exposed some participants’ data...

    The full scope of the incident was unclear Friday..."

    https://www.cyberscoop.com/tokyo-olympics-fujitsu-breach-japan/
     
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