RT Corporation: an intruder changed its website settings and sent visitors to an outside site
An intruder changed the robot maker's website settings so visitors went to an unrelated site. No personal data leaked, and its online shop runs on another server.
Disclosed
2020-06-11
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
What happened
Visitors to the site began to be sent to a third party's site; an intruder had changed the site settings. [1] [2]
The site was taken down, and around noon an older backup was put up for the time being. [1] [2]
The cause was found, the site was restored and the incident was disclosed. The company changed its hosting server. [1]
Impact
Timeline
- Started, Detected 2020-06-09
- Disclosed 2020-06-11
- 2 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Intrusion]
- Impact
- [Site defacement]
- Entry point
- Unknown
Data exposed or at risk
–
Organizations involved
[Breached][Moderate]Tokyo, ChiyodaManufacturing
RT Corporation
Sources
- [1][News]不正アクセスで設定書き換え、別サイトへ転送(アールティ)ScanNetSecurity · 2020-06-22 08:00
- [2][News]サイトが改ざん被害、外部サイトへ誘導 - ロボット開発会社Security NEXT · 2020-06-24