Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days after a major cyber attack.posted to a temporary website reveals that the group detected an issue that prevented access to multiple servers early on Saturday, June 8.
"In response to this incident, we immediately shut down the relevant servers to protect the data," the statement reads , adding that management has concluded"a high possibility that we were the victim of a cyber attack." Kadokawa's corporate site remains down – a static HTML replacement has been erected – while video-sharing site Niconico currently offers nothing other than a statement that it is undergoing maintenance, and an apology for that state of affairs., the service advised that its team is working on a complete rebuild, even as it also tries to determine the nature of the attack.
Another Kadokawa brand whose website is currently unavailable – e-commerce service Ebiten – currently offers only a page advising customers that existing orders will be fulfilled, but the outfit can't send confirmation emails.Kadokawa has, at the time of writing, offered no details of the attack – and nothing to suggest it has developed any understanding of the incident.
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