Japanese authorities did not realize for nine months that the national cybersecurity center had been hacked. The newspaper writes that Finance Times With reference to sources.
According to the publication, China was behind the hacker attack. Japan’s National Center for Incident Preparedness and Cybersecurity Strategy (NISC) reported a postal system hack in August. NISC discovered the hack in June, but Chinese hackers circumvented the cybersecurity system as early as October 2022.
As a result of the attack, it was recorded that the personal data of the people who reached the center using e-mail were leaked to the network.
Before this edition of Bleeping Computer reportedHe said hackers leaked the data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users.
Information about DuoLingo users first surfaced on the dark web in January 2023. The archive, which was sold for 1.5 thousand dollars, includes the real names, usernames and e-mail addresses of the users.
Previously reportedMost Russians said that his password could be cracked in just a minute.