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PANASONIC’S DATA BREACH LEAVES OPEN QUESTIONS

Author: Tara Seals
November 30, 2021 12:56 pm
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Cyberattackers had unfettered access to the technology giant’s file server for
four months.

Consumer electronics giant Panasonic’s data breach raises questions, researchers
say – given that more than two weeks after the incident was discovered, it’s
unclear if customers’ personal information has been impacted.

On Friday, Panasonic confirmed that its “network was illegally accessed by a
third party on November 11, 2021,” and that “some data on a file server had been
accessed during the intrusion.”

It added, “Panasonic is currently working [to] determine if the breach involved
customers’ personal information and/or sensitive information related to social
infrastructure.”



Further details on the breach are thin, with Panasonic’s bare-bones statement
offering very little in the way of technical detail or timeline. However, local
reports picked up by the Record indicated that the breach had been ongoing since
June, giving attackers plenty of time to knock around in the Japanese behemoth’s
files.

The NHK news outlet also noted that “in addition to information about the
company’s technology and business partners, personal information of employees
was stored on the server….the company says that the leakage of information to
the outside has not been confirmed at this time,” according to its sources
[translation via Google Translate].

However, Jake Williams, co-founder and CTO at BreachQuest, speculated that the
intrusion could balloon into a major incident.

“As is typical in these early-stage incident reports, there are many unknowns,”
he said via email. “In this case however, there are already red flags. NHK
reported that internal network monitoring was the source of the incident
detection, seemingly implying that the depth of intrusion is more than a
misconfigured external server…Those [misconfiguration] cases at least have
localized impact because there is no threat of threat actor lateral movement
deeper into the network.”

John Bambenek, principal threat hunter at Netenrich, also noted that the
four-month gap between breach and detection is concerning.

“While attacks on Japanese companies are continuing, the fact that the initial
infection occurred in June and wasn’t detected until November demonstrates that
companies are continuing to lag behind attackers,” he said via email. “Breaches
need to be detected in hours, not months.”

However, Eddy Bobritsky, CEO at Minerva Labs, had a different take on the
reported timeline.

“Although their investigation hasn’t been completed yet, Panasonic seem to be
lucky here as they were able to detect the breach relatively quickly,” he said.
“According to…IBM’s ‘Cost of Data Breach 2021’ report, on average it took 287
days to identify and contain a data breach.”

The news follows a ransomware attack on Panasonic India last year, which
resulted in email addresses and financial data being leaked. Also, Panasonic is
just the latest in a line of attacks on Japanese companies: Info-stealing hacks
in 2020 on Kawasaki, Kobe Steel and Pasco, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC formed a
notable cluster of events. And, this October, a ransomware attack paralyzed
Japanese tech giant Olympus.

It’s unclear yet when more details will emerge in the latest hit. “Panasonic
likely has some work ahead to threat hunt in its network before fully
understanding the scope of the compromise,” BreachQuest’s Williams said.

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