Hoya, a large Japanese corporation, is the world's second-largest eyeglass lens maker with about 90% of its eyewear lens sales earned from outside of Japan. Hoya Corp on Thursday said the production of several of its products have stopped after a system failure, which was "most likely caused by unauthorized access" to its servers.

The company discovered a system discrepancy in one of its overseas offices on Saturday and confirmed the disruption despite its efforts to isolate affected servers. The company is investigating whether any of its confidential or personal data had been compromised and is cooperating with authorities to resume production as soon as possible. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page