Cyber-attack disrupts Hoya's optical product production and orders
Japanese optics company Hoya was hit by a cyber-attack that disrupted production and order processing. Hunters International claimed to have stolen 1.7 million files totalling about 2TB and demanded $10 million.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Hoya
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disruption to optical product production and order processing; theft of about 2TB, or 1.7 million files, according to the attackers
- Cause / method
- Suspected ransomware cyber-attack
- Location
- Japan
Timeline
- It came to light that Hoya had suffered disruptions to production and order processing due to a cyber-attack.
- The attack on Hoya was suspected to be a ransomware attack.
- It came to light that Hunters International had claimed to have stolen about 2TB, or 1.7 million files, and demanded $10 million.
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