Sony Music Marketing: signs of tampering took the Sony Music official site offline for six days
Several pages of the official site showed signs of outside tampering, so it was taken offline along with the artist sites.
Disclosed
2020-04-01
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
6 days
What happened
Signs of tampering were found on several pages, and the site was taken offline. The company announced it the same day on its official Twitter account and elsewhere. [1] [3]
After checking every page, removing the unauthorized changes on the server and finding no other sign of intrusion, the site went back online. [3]
Impact
No sign of personal data or other information leaking from the server was found. [3]
Timeline
- Started, Detected, Disclosed 2020-04-01
- 1 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Intrusion]
- Impact
- [Site defacement][Service outage]
- Entry point
- Web app
Data exposed or at risk
–
Organizations involved
[Breached][Moderate]Tokyo, ChiyodaInformation and communications
Sony Music Marketing United Inc.
Sources
- [1][Official]「ソニーミュージック オフィシャルサイト」の公開停止についてSony Music Group · 2020-04-01
- [2][News]オフィシャルサイトが改ざん被害で公開停止、原因解明中（ソニー・ミュージック）ScanNetSecurity · 2020-04-03 09:00
- [3][News]改ざん痕跡発見で６日間公式サイト停止（ソニー・ミュージックエンタテインメント）ScanNetSecurity · 2020-04-10 08:00