As per reports, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party convened an emergency session of the National Cybersecurity Strategy Headquarters on Friday (09 October) following a series of cyber attacks impacting major corporations, healthcare institutions, and public infrastructure. Masaaki Taira, head of the National Cybersecurity Strategy Headquarters, declared that the nation is in a state of emergency in cyberspace.
Following are the details:
• More than 20 major companies, including Times Car, Lawson, JR East, Daiwa Securities, and BookOff, have reported security breaches exposing customer personal data.
• Times Car suffered a data breach compromising details linked to approximately six million customer accounts, including stored images of driving licences.
• East Japan Railway reported that approximately 1.67 million customer email addresses were compromised through its online booking system.
• A ransomware attack disclosed by cloud provider IDC Frontier, a subsidiary of SoftBank, was linked to system breaches and data exposure at JR East, local municipal bodies, and hundreds of commercial enterprises.
• The Financial Services Agency urged banking institutions on Friday (09 October) to discontinue accepting driving licences for new account verifications and transition to chip-enabled identification, such as passports or MyNumber national identity cards.
• The Japanese National Cybersecurity Office dispatched emergency instructions across government ministries, local authorities, and private sector organizations to mandate immediate security protocol reviews.
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