PAL GROUP: unauthorized access to multiple servers, and staff names and salary bank accounts may have leaked
Investigating a system failure, it found unauthorized access to multiple servers. Names, addresses and salary bank account numbers of current and former staff may have leaked.
Disclosed
2024-06-28
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
What happened
A system failure occurred. [1]
It reported to the Personal Information Protection Commission. [1]
It announced the case. It said the investigation of the failure confirmed unauthorized access to multiple group servers. All stores and online sales were open as usual, and member data was not leaked because it runs on a separate system. The next-day reflection of points granted stopped working. [1] [2]
Impact
The data that may have leaked is names, addresses, salary bank account numbers and email addresses of current and former officers and employees, and injury and illness information of employees on leave. [1]
Timeline
- Started, Detected 2024-06-16
- Disclosed 2024-06-28
- 12 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Intrusion]
- Impact
- [Data leak]
- Entry point
- Unknown
Data exposed or at risk
Organizations involved
[Breached][Major]Osaka, Osaka, Chuo-kuWholesale and retail trade
PAL GROUP Holdings CO., LTD.
Sources
- [1][Official]サーバートラブルの発生に関するお知らせPAL GROUP Holdings CO., LTD. · 2024-06-28
- [2][News]パルグループのサーバに不正アクセス、ポイント反映に影響ScanNetSecurity · 2024-07-12 08:05