en Japan: an employee's PC was infected with Emotet, and suspicious mail using staff and site names went to customers
An employee opened an attachment in mail posing as a business partner and the PC was infected. Names and addresses of people the employee had corresponded with leaked.
Disclosed
2020-09-18
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
What happened
Impact
Timeline
- Started 2020-09-16
- Detected 2020-09-17
- Disclosed 2020-09-18
- 2 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Malware]
- Impact
- [Data leak]
- Entry point
Data exposed or at risk
Organizations involved
[Breached][Major]Tokyo, ShinjukuOther services
en Inc.
Sources
- [1][Official]エン・ジャパン株式会社社員または当社サイトを装った不審なメールに関するお詫びと注意喚起についてen Japan · 2020-09-18
- [2][News]社員パソコンが「Emotet」に感染、顧客先で不審メールを確認(エン・ジャパン)ScanNetSecurity · 2020-09-30 08:00