Intruders steal employee's ID and encrypted password from Nissan

Two weeks after being hacked, Nissan admitted their computer system penetrated by unknown hackers who steal employee's ID and encrypted passwords.

The hack took place on april 13 but the company issued a statement about the attack on april 20 only.

"This included actions to protect information related to customers, employees and other partners worldwide. This incident initially involved the malicious placement of malware within our IS network, which then allowed transfer from a data store, housing employee user account credentials."Andy Palmer, Executive Vice President, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd said in the statement.

"As a result of our swift and deliberate actions we believe thatour systems are secure and that no customer, employee or program data has been compromised. However, we believe that user IDs and hashed passwords were transmitted. Wehave no indication that any personal information and emails have been compromised." he added