Bridgestone, a global tyre manufacture based in Japan, on Friday said its U.S. subsidiary has suffered a ransomware attack.
Earlier, suppliers of automaker Toyota Motor reported similar ransomware attack.
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Bridgestone in a news statement said third-party unauthorised access was made at Bridgestone Americas on Feb. 27, prompting it to shut down its computer network. It said it later reconnected the network after a comprehensive security check.
An investigation later determined the incident to be a ransomware attack, Bridgestone said.
The announcement comes about two weeks after Toyota’s main supplier, Denso, detected unauthorised access via a ransomware attack at a group company that handles sales and engineering in Germany.
Another Toyota supplier was hit by a cyberattack late last month, prompting Japan’s largest automaker to shut down domestic production for one day on March 1, affecting output of around 13,000 vehicles.
