Toei Animation was hacked because an employee downloaded an infected program — Kudasai

The studies Toei Animation published a press release reporting the results of the investigation into the “hack” made to their servers last month, revealing that it all resulted from one of the employees downloading an infected software from an external site. The statement writes:

TOEI ANIMATION CO., LTD. (the “Company”) today announced the results, described below, of the investigation conducted in connection with unauthorized access to its network by a third party on March 6, 2022. Additionally, as of today , the Company’s regular operations and anime production are running more or less normally. We would like to express our deepest apologies for the enormous concern and inconvenience caused to our customers, suppliers and other parties involved.

  • Background: An employee of the Company downloaded from an external website a computer program necessary for its activity, which had been manipulated to simultaneously download a computer program that would serve as an entry point for the infiltration of ransomware. Subsequently, on March 6, the Company confirmed unauthorized access to its network by a third party.
  • Response and investigation: When the aforementioned unauthorized access to its network was confirmed, the Company took several measures, including the immediate shutdown of parts of its internal system and the restriction of access from outside. Besides, the Company not only promptly reported the incident to the appropriate authorities, but has also carried out the appropriate and necessary responses and investigations with the involvement of external security specialists. Today, after the application of security measures, all the company’s internal systems are more or less standardized.
  • Impact: After unauthorized access by a third party, part of the data on the server and on the computers of the Company were encrypted after being infected by the ransomware, causing delays to some regular operations and anime production for about a month.
  • Information leakage: The investigation carried out by the external security specialists has not confirmed any information leakage, including personal information. The Company nor have you received any reports of damage to customers etc.
  • Measures to prevent recurrence: Looking ahead, the Company plans to train its employees to become more knowledgeable about information security and strengthen the response system to prevent unauthorized access.

Fuente: Official site

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