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Keizai Doyukai: ransomware hit part of the secretariat's systems and caused outages

Ransomware infected part of the business group's secretariat systems on August 21. Some uninfected systems were also paused for safety. No data leak was confirmed.

Disclosed

2020-08-25

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. Part of the secretariat's systems was infected with ransomware and failed. Some uninfected systems were also paused for safety. [1]

  2. Public disclosure. The group had consulted the police, informed public agencies and was investigating with a specialist firm. [1]

Impact

No data leak had been confirmed. People were warned to watch for suspicious mail claiming to come from the secretariat. [1] [2]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected 2020-08-21
  2. Disclosed 2020-08-25
  3. 4 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Ransomware]
Impact
[Service outage]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]経済同友会事務局システムの障害発生に関するお知らせKeizai Doyukai · 2020-08-25
  2. [2][News]ランサムウェアに感染、障害が発生 - 経済同友会Security NEXT · 2020-08-26
  3. [3][News]事務局システムの一部がランサムウェア感染（経済同友会）ScanNetSecurity · 2020-09-02 08:00