Trend Micro sold up to 120,000 customer data due to internal fraud November 6th 14:15
Trend Micro, a leading information security company headquartered in Japan, has revealed that employees from overseas offices have illegally taken and sold up to 120,000 customers. The data taken out did not include customers in Japan.
According to Trend Micro, we found that employees who were in charge of technical support at overseas offices illegally took data from up to 120,000 customers and sold them outside.
What was leaked was that the names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of customers in 8 countries such as the United States and Germany who contacted Trend Micro support were not included in Japan.
According to the company, in August, there was a suspicious phone calling for support at the customer's site, and after investigating it asking them to pay money for security measures, it was found outflow.
The company took measures such as providing information to the investigative agency after dismissing the employee who brought out the information.
Trend Micro has posted a comment on its website, saying, “We are deeply regretted to apologize for the great inconvenience and concern of our customers and other related parties. , We will work together to prevent the recurrence of the entire company, ”apologized.