Hackers steel your sensitive data at Mitsubishi

In a cyber attack on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are said to be confidential data stolen. That, say sources at the Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun. Mitsubishi is the leading manufacturer of military products in that country.

A spokesman for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries denied initially that no sensitive information was captured. Although the hackers or ip addresses, had obtained, would be ‘critical products and technologies as yet, safe’, the company said. Now it is clear, however, that the hackers inter alia, the design of a nuclear power plant and the plans of several army vehicles have been stolen, reports The Asahi Shimbun.

The Japanese defence industry was in september, hit by the first proven cyber attack. There were viruses found on dozens of computers in the various factories of Mitsubishi, where parts for Boeing aircraft, submarines and components for nuclear power plants are made.

This week it was announced that the computers of Japanese embassies and consulates and the houses of parliament are attacked. These pc’s would have a backdoor, but also the Japanese government denies that the hackers of sensitive information have been captured. According to rumors come all the mentioned cyber attacks from China, but that country denies those allegations.