Data about defense personnel may have been leaked after a cyberattack in May compromised computers at a Tokyo hotel mainly used by Defense Ministry officials and Self-Defense Forces personnel, sources said Tuesday.
A computer at Hotel Grand Hill Ichigaya, run by the mutual aid society for ministry employees, began sending irregular transmissions after an employee opened an apparently infected email attachment that month, the sources said.
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