At Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a major electronic component manufacturer, more than 72,000 pieces of information such as bank accounts of business partners and their employees were taken out by employees of a subcontractor Chinese company and uploaded to the cloud in China. I announced that I was there.
The company states that there is no evidence that a third party has obtained this information.
According to Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., in June, a monitoring system of a Chinese company that had been contracted to update the accounting system detected an alert and investigated it. It turned out that more than 72,000 items such as employee information were copied without permission.
In addition to the company name and bank account of the business partner, the employee's name, email address, bank account, etc. were also included.
The employee used his personal account to upload to the cloud in China, but the information has already been deleted and there is no evidence that it was copied or downloaded by a third party on the cloud. It is said.
Murata Manufacturing outsourced the update of the accounting system to IBM Japan, but IBM Japan subcontracted it to a Chinese company.
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. says, "We deeply apologize for the inconvenience and concern to our customers and related parties. We will take this incident seriously and strive to strengthen security and thoroughly manage information."