Japan investigates Mitsubishi Electric breach amid national security concerns

I recently read this article entitled Japan investigates Mitsubishi Electric breach amid national security concerns and I’ve never seen any updates on this. Targeting the electric grid as a whole can be a big time problem everywhere, let alone one particular company. Sean Lyngaas, the author of the post from Cyber Scoop, covered this well, and if there are any updates on this, please pass it along.

Japan is investigating a possible breach of sensitive defense contracting data following a cyberattack last year on electronics giant Mitsubishi Electric,
officials said Wednesday.

Data likely stolen in the hack, which Mitsubishi disclosed earlier this year, included specifications of hypersonic missile prototypes that Japan is developing,
according to a report in Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper. The Ministry of Defense had sent the specifications to multiple companies, including Mitsubishi, interested in bidding on the missile
contract, the report said.

There are links, so go and read the entire thing, this can’t be good.