Multinational technology giant Fujitsu confirmed a cyberattack 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 at our company and, as a result of an internal investigation, discovered that files containing personal information and customer information could be illegally deleted,” Fujitsu said. in his statement on their website, translated from Japanese.
Fujitsu said it disconnected the affected systems from its network and is investigating how its network was compromised by malware and “whether information has been leaked.”
The technology conglomerate did not specify what type of malware was used or the nature of the cyberattack.
Fujitsu also did not say what type 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 around 124,000 employees and serves government and private sector customers around the world. The technology company recently faced renewed furor over its role in the wrongful convictions of hundreds of UK Post Office workers, who were accused of false accounting and theft that were later attributed to bugs in Horizon computer software. that Fujitsu developed.
Fujitsu representatives did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's requests for comment on the cyberattack.
Fujitsu said it reported the incident to Japan's data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission, “anticipating” that personal information might have been stolen.
The company has not said whether it has filed the required data breach notices with any other government or authority, including in the United States.
