Denyo: a mail account was accessed without authorization and abused to send mass spam, and the mailbox contents may have been stolen
A mail account was abused to send spam. The mailbox contents may have been stolen until the account was suspended.
Disclosed
2021-04-09
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
What happened
Impact and response
The mailbox contents may have been stolen before the account was suspended. The number and content of the spam and the information that may have been stolen were not disclosed, and the company said it does not answer individual inquiries. [1]
The company said the account's password may have been easy to guess and changed it. It asked anyone who received mail from this account during the period to delete it without opening it. [1]
Timeline
- Started 2021-03-28
- Detected 2021-03-29
- Disclosed 2021-04-09
- 12 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Intrusion]
- Impact
- Entry point
- Unknown
Data exposed or at risk
–
Organizations involved
[Breached][Critical]Tokyo, ChuoManufacturing
Denyo Co., Ltd.
Sources
- [1][News]メールアカウントに不正アクセス、情報流出の可能性も - デンヨーSecurity NEXT · 2021-04-09