Keidanren suspects computers being illegally accessed from overseas

The Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) said Thursday that some of the computers at its secretariat have likely been compromised by irregular access. The nation's largest business lobby has set up a special team to investigate whether the computers were infected by viruses and whether information was stolen. Important information on lobbying, including documents exchanged with the government and lists of names, were uploaded to a cloud storage system accessible by the computers, according to Keidanren. On Friday, a company commissioned to manage Keidanren's network informed the business lobby that unusual interactions were seen between outside servers at seven overseas locations and some computers at the secretariat. An unusually large number of accesses took place during hours when the secretariat's computers are normally not in use.