Tohoku Institute of Technology: an email account was accessed without authorization, spam was sent to unspecified recipients abroad, and the mail of 1,042 people may have been read

1. 2020-11-09

   From this day until February 24, 2021, a visiting researcher's email account was abused, and 19,830 spam emails were sent to unspecified recipients abroad, of which 538 were delivered. [1]

2. 2021-02-24

   The unauthorized access was detected. [1]

3. 2021-06-30

   It announced the case. [1]

Access control set up in the cloud authentication service did not work under certain conditions. The mailbox contents may have been read for 1,042 people: 600 staff, 71 students and 371 people outside the university. [1]