UNITEC Foods: intrusion; about 78 GB of data sent out
On 5 July 2024 the food ingredients company UNITEC Foods announced that unauthorized outside access to its servers may have leaked data. According to Security NEXT, an employee found on 24 June that files on a server had been rewritten. The investigation found that the internal network had been compromised, some folders scanned and about 78 GB of data sent out. The exact content of the data could not be identified, but the accessed folders held no personal data, and the company concluded no personal data leaked. Core systems were not compromised and backups were intact, so business was not affected.
Disclosed
2024-07-05
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
Timeline
- Detected 2024-06-24
- Disclosed 2024-07-05
- 11 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Intrusion]
- Impact
- [Data leak]
- Entry point
- Unknown
Data exposed or at risk
–
Organizations involved
[Breached][Moderate]Tokyo, ChuoWholesale and retail trade
UNITEC Foods Co., Ltd.
Sources
- [1][Official]不正アクセスによる情報漏洩の可能性に関するお詫びとお知らせUNITEC Foods · 2024-07-05
- [2][News]サイバー攻撃で約78GB流出、個人情報含まず - フジ日本精糖子会社Security NEXT · 2024-09-03