206 of 495 Companies and Local Authorities Could Extract Their Data
Should investment in web-to-print ordering and core systems be decided by how much data is stored, or how fast operations can restart?
IDC Frontier’s ransomware incident affected 495 companies and local authorities. Thirteen days later, 206 customers could extract backup data from IDC Frontier, but that was not the number of customers able to resume operations.
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495 companies and local authorities were affected in a single morning. In IDC Frontier’s East Japan Region 1, virtual servers stopped and could not be restarted across four zones on 7 October 2026. Thirteen days later, backup data could be extracted in 206 of the 495 cases.
The 206 cases represent 41.6% of the total. What can be confirmed is the number of customers able to extract data from IDC Frontier’s side. For a printing company, recovery starts there.…
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