TradeWaltz access key misuse exposes 130 trade documents
Unauthorised access to the production and training environments of Japanese trade platform TradeWaltz resulted in the leak of 130 trade documents entrusted by users. An administrative access key held on an external contractor's server was misused after the server was compromised. The company suspended services in both environments, deleted the misused account and accounts created by the attacker, and published its investigation findings in its seventh update.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- TradeWaltz
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 130 trade documents leaked
- Cause / method
- Misuse of an administrative access key held on a compromised external contractor server
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- In its seventh update, TradeWaltz disclosed the leak of 130 trade documents, the suspension of services and the deletion of the associated accounts.
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