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[Investigating][Severity: Moderate][Ransomware][Intrusion]

Audio-Technica: the system failure since February 25 was traced to a ransomware intrusion and internal confidential information may have been viewed

Investigating the system failure that began in the early hours of February 25, it found a ransomware intrusion. Some internal confidential information may have been viewed.

Disclosed

2023-03-07

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. A system failure began in the early hours. [1]

  2. It announced that, while working on recovery, its investigation into the cause had found a ransomware intrusion. [1] [2]

Impact

Some internal confidential information may have been viewed without authorization. The extent of the damage and of the information leak is under investigation, and confirming everything and recovering is expected to take several more weeks. Payments at its official online store are outsourced, so it holds no card data and none leaked. [1] [2]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected 2023-02-25
  2. Disclosed 2023-03-07
  3. 10 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Ransomware][Intrusion]
Impact
[Service outage][Data leak]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]【重要】不正アクセスによる情報漏えいの可能性に関するお知らせとお詫び | AUTECAudio-Technica Corporation · 2023-03-07
  2. [2][News]オーディオテクニカにランサムウェア攻撃、電話システムのみ再開ScanNetSecurity · 2023-03-10 08:05