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Pacific Consultants: the Tottori Forest Cloud System it maintains was attacked and forest registers and other files were encrypted

A system it maintains for Tottori Prefecture was attacked and forest register and plan map files were encrypted. The originals are stored elsewhere.

Disclosed

2021-12-16

Organizations involved

2

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. It learned of the cyberattack on the system. It stopped the attacked web server and made it inaccessible. [1]

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

Impact

Electronic files in the system, such as forest registers and forest plan maps, were damaged (encrypted); ScanNetSecurity reported about 40,000. The original files are stored separately, so recovery is possible. The system lets the prefecture, 17 municipalities and 14 bodies including forestry businesses share forest information. [1] [2]

Timeline

  1. Detected 2021-12-13
  2. Disclosed 2021-12-16
  3. 3 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Ransomware]
Impact
[Service outage]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

–

Supply chain

Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd.

[Breached]

Organizations listed on this site
2

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]「鳥取県森林クラウドシステム」へのサイバー攻撃に関するご報告Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd. · 2021-12-16
  2. [2][News]「鳥取県森林クラウドシステム」にサイバー攻撃、電子ファイル4万件が暗号化被害ScanNetSecurity · 2021-12-20 08:05