Panasonic fell victim to subdomain hijacking by the Hazy Hawk threat group, which exploited misconfigured DNS records to spread malware and perpetrate online scams. The attackers redirected users to malicious sites through abandoned cloud resources, compromising user trust and exposing them to fraudulent activities. The attack emphasizes the critical importance of DNS hygiene and automated monitoring to detect and mitigate such vulnerabilities.

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic suffered from a major security breach after an unidentified threat actor had gained access to its internal network. An internal investigation revealed that the breach had gained access to some information on a file server. The compromised information includes sensitive customer details, employee personal information, Panasonic technical files from the company’s domestic operations. They investigated the incident and took preventive steps.

Panasonic Canada was targeted by the Conti ransomware group recently in February 2021. The attack affected the company's systems, processes, and networks. The firm immediately investigated the incident and contained the malware, cleaned and restored servers, and rebuilt its applications.

Tech giant Panasonic suffereed a data breach incident during June 2021 to November 2021 after its file server were accessed by an unauthorised party. The hackers infiltrated the servers and accessed sensitive data of job candidates including personal details of the candidates and other business-related information. This was the second incident with Panasonic after attackers had already released 4GB of data they had stolen from Panasonic India in November 2020.