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Japan: Mitsubishi Heavy comes under cyberattack: Yomiuri(major defense firm)
IBN ^ | 09/19/11

Posted on 09/19/2011 4:10:05 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Mitsubishi Heavy comes under cyberattack: Yomiuri

Tokyo: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s computer network was hacked at factories that build submarines and missiles and make components for nuclear power plants in the first such attack targeting Japan's defence industry, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Monday.

Information from the company's computer system was seen stolen in the cyber attack, the Yomiuri said without citing where it got the information. A Mitsubishi Heavy spokesman confirmed the cyber attack, but said the firm was still investigating the case including the possibility of information leaks.

Yomiuri newspaper said about 80 virus-infected computers were found at MHI's headquarters in Tokyo as well as manufacturing and research and development sites including Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works and Nagoya Guidance & Propulsion System Works. Kobe Shipyard currently builds submarines and makes components to build nuclear power stations, while the Nagasaki Shipyard makes escort ships. The Nagoya plant makes guided missiles and rocket engines, the paper said citing unnamed sources


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defenseindustry; espionage; hacking; mitsubishiheavy

1 posted on 09/19/2011 4:10:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...

P!


2 posted on 09/19/2011 4:10:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Now golly to gyoza and don’t hold the chahan...

I wonder who did that!

/sarc


3 posted on 09/19/2011 4:27:15 AM PDT by Ronin (If we were serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent, we would bring back public hangings)
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Shape-shifters /sarc
4 posted on 09/19/2011 4:34:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Hu did this?


5 posted on 09/19/2011 6:53:27 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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