Muroran Institute of Technology: staff PCs were accessed without authorization, the mail server was used to send spam, and personal data of 553 people may have been viewed

1. 2023-02-27

   It announced that from April to July 2022 PCs used by four staff members and others were accessed without authorization and the attacker used remote control to make the mail server send spam and similar. It found that the attacker may have viewed past sent and received emails of those staff on the mail server. [1] [2]

The emails that may have been viewed contained personal data of 553 people. No misuse of the personal data has been confirmed. For people whose data is only a name without contact details, or whose contact details are no longer valid, the posting on the website replaced individual notification. [1] [2]