Reuters reports: Toyota said it will suspend all domestic factory operations on Tuesday losing around 13,000 cars after one a company supplying plastic parts and electronic component was hit by a suspected cyberattack. No information was immediately available about who was behind the attack or the motive. The attack comes just after Japan joined Western…
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Bridgestone investigating possible information security breach
Hollie West reports: Some employees at Bridgestone’s La Vergne plant reported being sent home Sunday morning due to a possible cyber attack. Bridgestone Americas confirmed that it learned of a potential security incident and has launched an investigation. The company says it has disconnected some manufacturing and retreading facilities in North America and Latin America…
260,000 confidential attorney discipline records published after data breach, State Bar of California says
Scott Schwebke reports: A website that aggregates court cases nationwide has published 260,000 confidential attorney discipline records, the State Bar of California said Saturday, Feb. 26. The data breach by shadowy judyrecords.com was first discovered Friday by the State Bar. “We apologize to anyone who is affected by the website’s unlawful display of nonpublic data,”…
Nvidia breached by attackers who seem shocked by hack-back
Ian King and William Turton report: A cyber breach suffered by Nvidia Corp. in recent days appears to have been a ransomware attack that’s not connected to the crisis in Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the incident. The hack looks to be relatively minor and not fueled by geopolitical tensions, said the person, who asked…
Boston law firm Taylor, Ganson & Perrin notifies clients of data breach
One month after first detecting a problem, Boston law firm Taylor, Ganson & Perrin LLP is providing notice of a data security breach. Like many law firms who have experienced breaches, clients’ medical information and what might be protected health information may have been accessed or acquired by the unnamed threat actor(s), but whether it…
Personal info leaks from listed Japan firms hit record high in 2021
Kyodo News reports: The number of personal information leaks from companies listed on Japanese stock exchanges, as well as their subsidiaries, rose by 30 percent in 2021 from the previous year to a record 137 cases, according to a corporate research agency. Tokyo Shoko Research said in a report that over 50 percent or 68…