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JVCKENWOOD: servers of three European sales companies were accessed without authorization, and personal data of business partners and staff may have leaked

Mail and file servers of the sales sites in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK were accessed without authorization. No leak was confirmed.

Disclosed

2021-09-29

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. On this day local time, the mail and file servers of the sales sites in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK failed, and the systems and networks were cut. An outside firm's analysis found unauthorized access. [2]

  2. It announced the case. [1] [3]

  3. A second report gave the range of information that may have leaked. Normal operations in Europe had resumed. [2]

Information that may have leaked

The scope is information on file system servers and similar at JVCKENWOOD Europe B.V. (Netherlands), its Benelux branch (Belgium) and JVCKENWOOD U.K. Limited: personal data of business partners and staff (including retirees and secondees from Japan), and corporate data such as sales and accounting. No leak has been confirmed so far. [2]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected 2021-09-22
  2. Disclosed 2021-09-29
  3. 7 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Intrusion]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

[Name]

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]欧州販売会社サーバへの不正アクセスに関するお知らせJVCKENWOOD Corporation · 2021-09-29
  2. [2][Official]欧州販売会社サーバへの不正アクセスに関するお知らせ（第二報）JVCKENWOOD Corporation · 2021-10-08
  3. [3][News]JVCケンウッドの欧州販売会社サーバに第三者が不正アクセスScanNetSecurity · 2021-10-01 08:05