Ransomware attack disrupts Japan's IDCF Cloud used by govt clients

IDC Frontier, a Japanese cloud provider subsidiary of SoftBank Group, suffered a ransomware attack on its IDCF Cloud service in the East Japan Region 1, leading to a system outage and impacting 495 organizations, including government clients. The attackers claimed to have encrypted 225 databases (3.6 PB), accessed 239 hypervisors, sealed 16,000 VM disks, and wiped over 554,000 snapshots. The company has isolated affected systems, disabled customer console access proactively, and is investigating the intrusion vector and full impact.

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