Hackers Target Japanese Pensioners
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 06/02/2015 09:27 AM
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A successful breach of Japan Pension Service's computer systems resulted in the theft of 1.25 million pensioners data.
Hackers have managed to access the systems by the use of a spear-phishing email which one employee opened. The police have been called in to help investigate the breach which occurred May 28th.
What was compromised: names and pension numbers of 31,000 individuals; names, pension numbers, and birth dates of an additional 1.25 million individuals. To mitigate the intrusion, the service has re-issued pension numbers.
"These are the people's vital pensions. I have instructed Health and Welfare Minister (Yasuhisa) Shiozaki to consider the pension recipients and do everything possible," Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters when the breach was made public.
As a side note, the US has agreed to help the Japanese government with online attacks against military bases and infrastructure.
Source: Net-Security
Hackers have managed to access the systems by the use of a spear-phishing email which one employee opened. The police have been called in to help investigate the breach which occurred May 28th.What was compromised: names and pension numbers of 31,000 individuals; names, pension numbers, and birth dates of an additional 1.25 million individuals. To mitigate the intrusion, the service has re-issued pension numbers.
"These are the people's vital pensions. I have instructed Health and Welfare Minister (Yasuhisa) Shiozaki to consider the pension recipients and do everything possible," Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters when the breach was made public.
As a side note, the US has agreed to help the Japanese government with online attacks against military bases and infrastructure.
Source: Net-Security
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