Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days following a major cyber attack.
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A Sunday statement posted on a temporary website reveals that the group discovered an issue that prevented access to several servers early on Saturday, June 8.
"In response to this incident, we are immediately shutting down the relevant servers to protect the data," the statement said (after machine translation), adding that management has concluded "a high possibility that we were the victim of a cyber attack" .
Kadokawa's company website remains down — a static HTML replacement has been built — while video-sharing site Niconico currently offers nothing but a statement that it's undergoing maintenance and an apology for this condition.
