Japan Weather Association: repeated DDoS attacks on tenki.jp
DDoS attacks disrupted the tenki.jp website and app on 5 January 2025; that interruption ended at about 14:35. Further attacks on 9 January caused intermittent website disruption, which the Japan Weather Association said was resolved at about 16:30 on 10 January after countermeasures. Its contracted weather-information feeds to broadcasters and other organizations continued without missing or delayed data.
Disclosed
2025-01-05
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
Timeline
- Started, Disclosed 2025-01-05
- Resolved 2025-01-10
- 5 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [DDoS]
- Impact
- [Service outage]
- Entry point
- Unknown
Data exposed or at risk
–
Services hit
Organizations involved
[Breached][Moderate]Tokyo, ToshimaScientific research, professional and technical services
Japan Weather Association
Sources
- [1][Official]天気予報専門メディア「tenki.jp」がご利用しづらい事象について（復旧済）JWA · 2025-01-05
- [2][Official]天気予報専門メディア「tenki.jp」へのDDoS攻撃につきましてJWA · 2025-01-10
- [3][Official]天気予報専門メディア「tenki.jp」の復旧につきましてJWA · 2025-01-10