Keio University: the meeting room reservation system of its Shonan Fujisawa Campus graduate building was accessed without authorization, and 6,507 personal data entries of people who booked may have leaked
A flaw in the meeting room reservation system was exploited, and 6,507 entries including names, phone numbers and email addresses of people who booked may have leaked.
Disclosed
2021-05-10
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
6.5K
6,507
Downtime
Unknown
What happened
From this day, similar unauthorized access took place. A later log investigation showed similar attacks on November 6 and on December 2, 16 and 17. [1]
Around this time, the university noticed that the reservation system display was garbled, investigated and found the unauthorized access of April 12. [1]
It began contacting the people concerned individually. [1]
Impact
Names, phone numbers, email addresses, affiliation codes and the like, 6,507 entries in total, of people who made reservations between December 20, 2013 and April 12, 2021 may have leaked. Without duplicates that is 552 names, 505 phone numbers and 609 email addresses. The university reported the damage to its supervising ministry. [1]
Timeline
- Started 2020-11-05
- Detected 2021-04-14
- Disclosed 2021-05-10
- 186 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Web app exploit]
- Impact
- [Data leak]
- Entry point
- Web app
Data exposed or at risk
Organizations involved
[Breached][Critical]Tokyo, MinatoEducation and learning support6,507 leaked
Keio University
Sources
- [1][News]会議室予約システムに不正アクセス、予約者情報流出の可能性 - 慶大Security NEXT · 2021-05-10