Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-05-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: Hokusen Co.
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Retail Trade
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Hokusen Co., issues a notice in which it addressed a data breach potentially affecting the personal information of up to 44,559 customers, when it discovered that personal information may have been leaked due to unauthorised access by a third party.