Multinational technology giant Fujitsu confirmed a cyber attack in a statement on Friday and warned that hackers may have stolen personal data and customer information.
“We confirmed the presence of malware on several work computers in our company and as a result of an internal investigation, we discovered that files containing personal and customer information could be illegally removed,” Fujitsu said. in her statement on his website, translated from Japanese.
Fujitsu said it has disconnected the affected systems from its network and is investigating how its network was compromised by malware and “whether information has been leaked”.
The tech group did not specify what kind of malware was used or the nature of the cyberattack.
Fujitsu also did not say what kind of personal information may have been stolen or to whom the personal information belongs — such as its employees, corporate customers or citizens whose governments use the company’s technologies.
Headquartered in Japan, Fujitsu has approximately 124,000 employees and serves public and private sector customers worldwide. The tech company has recently faced renewed anger over its role in the wrongful convictions of hundreds of UK Post Office workers accused of falsifying ledgers and theft that were later blamed on bugs in Horizon computer software developed by Fujitsu.
Fujitsu representatives did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s requests for comment about the cyberattack.
Fujitsu said it reported the incident to Japan’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission, “in anticipation” that personal information may have been stolen.
The company has not said whether it has filed required data breach notifications with any other government or authority, including the United States.
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