[ITmedia News] System failures occur one after another in local governments in Tokyo; Kodaira City's website cannot be accessed, and there is no hope for recovery.

As the problem of information leaks due to unauthorized access is expanding across the country, local governments in Tokyo are also experiencing a series of system failures. Kodaira City's official website is no longer viewable, and some sites in Mitaka City and Adachi Ward are also unavailable. This appears to be due to a problem with the outsourced website management company or server management company, but there is no prospect of recovery.

When I access Kodaira City's official website, a screen appears saying "The page you are looking for cannot be displayed."

The city has experienced a system failure since the morning of October 7, and the city's website has been unable to be accessed. Some have pointed to a connection with the ransomware cyber attack on IDC Frontier (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo), which provides cloud services, but a spokesperson for the city commented, ``From a security perspective, we cannot answer whether this is related.''

At the moment, a spokesperson said, ``we are proceeding with an investigation to ensure early recovery and whether or not there has been an information leak,'' and we are using social media to provide information to citizens.

Mitaka City announced on the 8th that a service that automatically translates website content into English, Chinese, etc. is unavailable. ``The service outsourcing company informed us that the problem was due to a failure in IDC's cloud service.'' There is no timetable for the service to be restored, but other website browsing is not affected.

Adachi City's official website can be accessed, but some sites such as ``Adachi Public Relations'' display an access error. The outsourcing company reportedly explained that ``a problem is occurring at the data center.''

Musashino City's official website has also been out of order since the morning of the 8th, and searches are taking a long time due to a problem with the site's search. According to officials, the cause was someone accessing a large amount of data. A large amount of data was also sent on the 6th and 7th, raising the alarm.