No Info Breach Found at SoftBank Unit after Unauthorized Access
Tokyo, Oct. 14 (Jiji Press)--IDC Frontier Inc., a cloud service subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications and technology company SoftBank Corp., said Wednesday that no breaches of customer information it stores has been confirmed following unauthorized access last week. IDC Frontier explained that an investigation conducted with an external security firm found no evidence that data had been...
Tokyo, October 14 - IDC Frontier, a cloud service subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications and technology giant SoftBank Corp., announced on Wednesday that no breaches of customer data have been confirmed following unauthorized access to their systems last week. Following an investigation with an external security company, IDC Frontier found no evidence that any data had been queried or exfiltrated.
The unauthorized access incident occurred on October 7, causing a disruption to IDC Frontier's cloud service and impacting 495 clients, including various local governments and businesses. Among those affected, East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, reported that up to 6.09 million sets of personal information might have been compromised. Additionally, Nissui Logistics Corp., a subsidiary of the food manufacturer Nissui Corp., temporarily halted its operations as a result of the breach.
On Wednesday, Izumi Co., a general supermarket chain operating in the Chugoku and Shikoku western and Kyushu southwestern regions, revealed that up to approximately 400,000 customers' information may have been leaked as a consequence of the unauthorized access.
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