A cyberattack on a cloud service has led to the wide-scale leak of personal information, with as many as 64 companies potentially affected, 日本経済新聞 reports. Among those caught up in the incident are Suzuki and Panasonic, according to the newspaper.
The breach centered on Commune, a Tokyo-based company in the Shinagawa area that runs community websites, 日本経済新聞 reports. The attack on its systems is said to have rippled outward to the firms whose data the service handled.
Coverage of the fallout points to further victims beyond those named in the initial report. Yamaha Motor's official community site also suffered unauthorized access, with personal information belonging to roughly 1,600 people feared leaked, according to reports from テレビ静岡NEWS, 中日BIZナビ, TBS NEWS DIG and 沖縄タイムス社. The affected site was tied to electric bicycles, 沖縄タイムス社 reports, and the compromised data is said to include names and addresses.
The incidents draw attention to a broader concern: cloud services, long presented as a secure option, are emerging as a vulnerable point in the chain of cyber risk, 日本経済新聞 notes.
What to watch next is whether investigators can pin down how the intrusion unfolded and how many more organizations will confirm that their customer data was exposed.
