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[Resolved][Severity: Moderate][Credential abuse]

Fukuyama city: an unknown post on the city's official Twitter account, possibly through unauthorized access

A post the city had not made appeared on the official Twitter account of Fukuyama, Hiroshima, and was deleted four minutes later; an outsider may have got in.

Disclosed

2020-03-18

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. A post unrelated to the city appeared on the official account, @cityfukuyama. [1]

  2. A staff member reported it. [1]

  3. The post was deleted. [1]

Response

The city said a third party may have accessed the account, investigated the cause and said it would change the password regularly. [1]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected, Disclosed 2020-03-18
  2. 1 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Credential abuse]
Impact
Entry point
Stolen credentials

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][News]自治体公式ツイッター不明投稿、不正アクセスか（福山市）ScanNetSecurity · 2020-03-26 09:00