The National Police Agency said on the 6th that it has set up a joint investigation headquarters bringing its Cyber Special Investigation Division together with police in all 47 prefectures, after a run of cyberattacks on companies and organizations leaked personal information.
The headquarters was established at the Cyber Special Investigation Division on the 6th. Investigators will take access logs from the companies and organizations that were hit and analyze them, aiming to identify who carried out the attacks and to build cases against them.
In a separate move, the agency set up a joint headquarters on the 6th pairing its Cyber Special Investigation Division with the Metropolitan Police Department to examine the unauthorized access to a cloud service run by GMO Internet.
NPA Commissioner General Yoshinobu Kusunoki told a meeting of prefectural police chiefs on the 5th that the agency and the prefectural forces needed to work closely together on investigations and on establishing what happened, and to push forward strongly on countermeasures.
Acting on the government's emergency package on cybersecurity, the agency also issued a directive on the 6th instructing police across the country to build an investigation structure working as one body.