[Resolved][Severity: Minor][Intrusion]

Biratori Town: signs of an intrusion on the official website made the town shut it for about 20 days

The Hokkaido town found traces of unauthorized access on its official website and took it down from July 31. It said visitors were not affected and reopened the site on August 19.

Disclosed

2020-08-21

Organizations involved

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

2020-07-31
Traces of unauthorized access were found on the official website, and it was down for maintenance from this day to August 18. [1]
2020-08-19
After looking into the cause and effects and improving security, the town reopened the site. [1]

Impact

The town said people who visited the site were not affected. [1]

Timeline

Started, Detected 2020-07-31
Disclosed 2020-08-21
21 days

Attack or cause

Method: [Intrusion]
Impact: [Service outage]
Entry point: Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

[Breached][Minor]Hokkaido, BiratoriMunicipality
Biratori Town

						Note
Biratori Town	[Breached]	[Minor]	Hokkaido, Biratori	Municipality	Unknown

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Sources

[1][News]不正アクセスでサイト停止、20日ぶりに再開 - 平取町Security NEXT · 2020-08-21