Murata Manufacturing

4HighPartly confirmedAnnounced Updated

Unauthorized access to an internal information-sharing system led to confirmed theft of personal data: about 73,000 employee-related records and 15,000 external-party records, with possible duplicates.

This incident was imported from a dataset that compiles public announcements, and we are still checking it against the sources. Counts and causes will be updated after the check. Sources are in Japanese.

Cause
Unauthorized access
Sector
Manufacturing
Operational impact
None

Data involved

DataStatusCountGroupEvidence
Email addressLeak confirmedNot disclosed—Source(opens in a new tab)
Payment detailsLeak confirmedabout 73,000 records—Source(opens in a new tab)
Health informationLeak confirmedabout 73,000 records—Source(opens in a new tab)
NameLeak confirmedNot disclosed村田製作所の情報共有システム(従業員等・社外関係者)Source(opens in a new tab)
NameLeak confirmedNot disclosedムラタメイクの自動車保険契約の顧客Source(opens in a new tab)
Phone numberLeak confirmedNot disclosed—Source(opens in a new tab)
Postal addressLeak confirmedabout 73,000 records—Source(opens in a new tab)
Date of birthLeak confirmedabout 73,000 records—Source(opens in a new tab)

Counts are the figures the organization announced. Because the same person may be counted more than once, we do not add the rows together.

What users should do

  • Check your card statements
  • Watch for emails and texts pretending to be the company

General steps based on the type of data involved. Check the organization’s notice or help line to see whether you are affected.

Tools for this kind of attack

Picked from the cause of the incident: tools that help you check your own systems for the same kind of weakness, or spot the warning signs.

Vuls

Impact Reaches others
future-architect/vuls

An agentless vulnerability scanner that checks the packages installed on a server and lists the ones affected by known CVEs.

Purpose
Defense
Type
Command line
Difficulty
Intermediate
License
CopyleftGPL-3.0
Category
Vulnerability scanning
Actively updatedstars12,302Last update 2026-10-21
Read the Vuls review

Wazuh

Impact Local only
wazuh/wazuh

A free security platform (SIEM/XDR) that collects logs, configuration, and vulnerability data from agents on your endpoints and shows it all in one dashboard.

Purpose
Defense
Type
Self-hosted server
Difficulty
Advanced
License
CopyleftGPL-2.0(一部の構成要素は Apache-2.0)
Category
Vulnerability scanning / Forensics
Actively updatedstars17,410Last update 2026-10-24
Read the Wazuh review

Suricata

Impact Reaches others
OISF/suricata

An intrusion detection and prevention engine (IDS/IPS) that matches network traffic against rules and records suspicious activity as alerts.

Purpose
Defense
Type
Self-hosted server
Difficulty
Intermediate
License
CopyleftGPL-2.0
Category
Network
Actively updatedstars6,773Last update 2026-10-23
Read the Suricata review

Sources

  1. 当社のIT環境への不正アクセスに関するお知らせ(第三報)corporate.murata.com · Published 2026-04-27(opens in a new tab)
  2. 当社のIT環境への不正アクセスに関するお知らせcorporate.murata.com · Published 2026-03-06(opens in a new tab)
  3. 当社のIT環境への不正アクセスに関するお知らせ(第二報)corporate.murata.com · Published 2026-04-06(opens in a new tab)
  4. 村田製作所IT環境への不正アクセスによる個人情報漏えいに関するお知らせとお詫びwww.murata-mlb.co.jp · Published 2026-07-10(opens in a new tab)