Security News > 2020 > January > Mitsubishi Electric Blames Anti-Virus Bug for Data Breach

Mitsubishi Electric says hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in its anti-virus software, prior to the vendor patching the flaw, and potentially stole trade secrets and employee data.

Mitsubishi Electric says data it believes was exposed during the attack includes records belonging to 1,987 job applicants, employee data for 4,566 new graduate recruitment applicants, information on 1,569 retired employees, as well as corporate-confidential technical and sales materials.

A case study from 2015 published by Trend Micro says that Mitsubishi Electric Information Systems Corp., which oversees IT for Mitsubishi Electric Group, used some of its products.

Mitsubishi Electric's data breach notification arrives more than six months after the company says it detected the intrusion.

In April 2018 Mitsubishi Electric pledged to follow "Timely and appropriate information disclosure" in regards to data breaches.

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