Cybersecurity incident — 2023-08-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC)
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Suspected Chinese hackers breach Japan's cybersecurity agency and potentially access sensitive data stored on its networks for nine months.