Kawasaki Heavy Industries on Monday revealed that information from its overseas offices might have been stolen following a security breach that occurred earlier this year.
Based in Japan, Kawasaki Heavy Industries is a multinational corporation best known for the manufacturing of motorcycles, heavy equipment, engines, ships, rolling stock, and aerospace and defense equipment.
On June 11, 2020, the company discovered that unknown actors breached its network. It immediately launched an investigation into the matter but, because the unauthorized access spanned multiple offices, it had no information to share publicly until now.
The thorough investigation, Kawasaki says, revealed that “some information from overseas offices may have been leaked to external parties.”
Kawasaki explained that the incident was discovered during an internal audit, which revealed “a connection to a server in Japan from an overseas office (Thailand) that should not have occurred.”
The company terminated communications between the affected office and its Japan headquarters and started an investigation that revealed additional unauthorized access to its servers in Japan, originating from overseas sites located in Indonesia, the Philippines, and the United States.
“We have enhanced monitoring operations to accesses from overseas offices and tightened access restrictions to block unauthorized accesses. Since then, we have continued to strengthen company-wide security measures,” the company announced.
During its investigation, the company conducted a security assessment of roughly 29,000 terminals in Japan and in overseas office networks where incidents possibly occurred.
Kawasaki also says that no further unauthorized access to its network has been observed since August, and that communications between the affected overseas offices and the Japan office have been restored at the end of November.
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