Tepco’s corporate group company to operate 40% of Japanese nuclear plants got hacked / 3 days to identify malware

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2 of the corporate group companies of Tepco had unauthorized computer access, Tepco announced on 10/10/2014. They state the head office of Tepco itself was not hacked.

One of those hacked companies is in charge of developing, maintaining and operating the systems to control 13 nuclear plants of Tepco, which is 40% of all the BWRs in Japan.

It was 10/7 to 10/8/2014 when they detected the unauthorized access to 13 computers but they couldn’t identify malware until 10/10/2014.

They haven’t checked if it caused any information leakage yet.

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