Unauthorised access shuts down Japan's electricity and gas reporting site
Dentorinet, a site that collects sales volumes, contract counts and other reports from electricity and gas operators in Japan, was shut down following unauthorised external access. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is investigating whether information was leaked and other issues, and decided to accept reports by email until the site is restored.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Suspension of the periodic reporting site for electricity and gas operators
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised external access to the Dentorinet periodic reporting site
- Location
- Japan
Timeline
- Dentorinet was shut down following unauthorised external access, and authorities investigated whether information had been leaked and accepted reports by email.
- It became known that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry had decided to accept reports by email until the site was restored.
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