Japan's Niconico hit by cyber-attack, causing outage and data leak
Japanese video-sharing service Niconico suspended its service after a large-scale cyber-attack. The outage continued and the service was expected to remain offline until July. A data leak resulting from the attack was later confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Niconico
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Service outage and data leak
- Cause / method
- Large-scale cyber-attack
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- Niconico was hit by a cyber-attack.
- The Niconico outage continued after the large-scale cyber-attack.
- Niconico's outage was expected to last until July.
- A data leak resulting from the cyber-attack was confirmed.
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