Panasonic

Tech giant Panasonic suffereed a data breach incident during June 2021 to November 2021 after its file server were accessed by an unauthorised party.

The hackers infiltrated the servers and accessed sensitive data of job candidates including personal details of the candidates and other business-related information.

This was the second incident with Panasonic after attackers had already released 4GB of data they had stolen from Panasonic India in November 2020.

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/hackers-raided-panasonic-server-months-stealing-data-job-seekers/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/panasonic

"id": "pan224119422",
"linkid": "panasonic",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "06/2021",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Technology',
                        'name': 'Panasonic',
                        'type': 'Corporation'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized Access to File Server',
 'data_breach': {'data_exfiltration': True,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal details of job '
                                              'candidates',
                                              'Business-related information']},
 'date_detected': 'June 2021',
 'date_resolved': 'November 2021',
 'description': 'Tech giant Panasonic suffered a data breach incident during '
                'June 2021 to November 2021 after its file server was accessed '
                'by an unauthorised party. The hackers infiltrated the servers '
                'and accessed sensitive data of job candidates including '
                'personal details of the candidates and other business-related '
                'information. This was the second incident with Panasonic '
                'after attackers had already released 4GB of data they had '
                'stolen from Panasonic India in November 2020.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Personal details of job candidates',
                                 'Business-related information'],
            'systems_affected': ['File Server']},
 'title': 'Panasonic Data Breach Incident',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}