Cyberattack at IDC Frontier disrupts services around nation

The Asahi Shimbun reports: IDC Frontier Inc., a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, said Oct. 7 that a ransomware attack caused a system outage affecting 495 corporate and local government customers. The Tokyo-based company said it is still investigating the scale of the damage and whether any personal information was compromised. The cyberattack has…