NicoNico Sufferes ransomware attack, launches new version

TapTechNews on June 15th, it was reported that the anime bullet comment website NicoNico released a statement on the 14th, claiming that the company's data center had suffered a ransomware cyberattack, resulting in a large number of virtual machines being encrypted and unusable.

Facing the continuous attacks, NicoNico physically unplugged the power cords and communication cables of the servers to prevent the infection from spreading - which led to the inability of all the servers in the website's data center to be used. Currently, NicoNico has suspended its internal network and internal business systems and is investigating whether there is a data leakage problem.

The official said that the development team needs to check the server contents one by one, attempting to rescue complete data and use these data to rebuild the entire system in a'safe environment'. The phased recovery of services is expected to take more than a month. On the same day, NicoNico announced the launch of a new version of the website 'Niconico Anime (Re: dummy)'.

TapTechNews Note: Currently, this temporarily launched'minimalist version' website provides various types of popular videos in the initial stage of NicoNico in 2007, and these videos will be replaced after a few days. During the service suspension, users can watch these 'ancient' videos without logging in.