| Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011
Mitsubishi Heavy's military aircraft data transferred during cyber-attack
Kyodo
Information on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s military aircraft may have been read by outsiders when the major defense contractor came under a cyber-attack earlier this year, sources close to the Defense Ministry said Monday.
The data on aircraft development, stored on an MHI server, were transferred to another of its servers, probably because of a virus at the time of the cyber-attack, but it hasn't been confirmed that the transferred data also left the company, the sources said.
The ministry believes the data do not pertain to any confidential national security matters, the sources said.
It was revealed in August that Mitsubishi's computer network came under a major online assault. Forty-five of its servers and 38 computers were infected with more than 50 types of viruses at 11 locations in Japan, including a plant in Aichi Prefecture that builds missiles and aircraft engines.
Among them was a Trojan horse that ordered the data to be sent somewhere outside the company.
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