The organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics is the latest victim of a breach in which hackers broke into a Japanese government contractor’s data-sharing tool, according to a Japanese media report. The breach affected some 170 people who participated in a cybersecurity drill ahead of the Olympic Games next month, Kyodo News reported. The leaked data included the names and affiliations of people from 90 organizations involved in hosting the Olympics, according to the outlet. It’s apparently the latest Japanese organization to be swept up in an incident that began with unidentified attackers accessing data-sharing software made by technology firm Fujitsu. The breach of the tool last month has reportedly given hackers access to data at multiple Japanese government ministries. Fujitsu has suspended use of the software as it investigates the breach. The Japanese government’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), which hosted the cybersecurity drill, […]
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