Mitsubishi Electric Home Appliance: intrusion also reached a server holding data of about 2.31 million customers

On 5 August 2024 Mitsubishi Electric Home Appliance, a Mitsubishi Electric subsidiary, said an intrusion into its information systems may have leaked personal data. It confirmed the intrusion on 17 April; the investigation found that data of 3,893 employees, former employees and job applicants (names with addresses, phone numbers or email addresses) may have leaked. On 25 July it also found two accesses, of 13 and 12 seconds, to a server holding data of about 2.31 million customers taken from appliance service records. The company cannot rule out that this data was viewed. The same kinds of data are involved, no card data is included, and no misuse had been reported at the time of the announcement. The company's testing considered identifiable viewing during those short access windows extremely unlikely.