By Gregory Hale
A Tokyo-based food and marine products company Nissui Corporation suffered a cyberattack earlier this month and ended up forced to take several systems offline, halting the ability to ship or receive goods.
Nissui said its logistics subsidiary, Nissui Logistics, suffered a system outage due to suspected unauthorized access to a third-party data center it uses.
As a result, the company is not able to ship or receive goods, and the company is currently investigating whether personal information or customer data ended up leaked in the Wednesday, October 7 incident.
Company Statement
In an advisory released on Oct. 7 the company said:
“Today, a system outage occurred at Nissui Logistics Corporation, a group company of Nissui Corporation.
“As a result, the inbound and outbound processing of goods handled by Nissui Logistics is currently unavailable. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and concern this has caused our customers and business partners.
“The cause appears to be unauthorized access by a third party to a data center operated by an external service provider used by Nissui Logistics.
“We are currently investigating whether any personal information or customer data managed by the Nissui Group has been leaked externally.
“We are working toward an early recovery and will provide further updates regarding the expected timeline for restoration.”
No further information was immediately available on who was behind the attack and what kind of attack it was.
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