Japan
Iris Ohyama data cloud breach exposes info of 7.7 million customers
Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama, the operator of the Iris Plaza shopping platform, disclosed that personal information belonging to about 7.7 million people may have been exposed after unauthorized access to a third-party cloud service the company used. The company discovered the incident late last month and publicly disclosed it with limited details, along with an announcement that […]
Japan Airlines suffers third-party data breach exposing passenger info
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus’s Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers. JAL Group, which operates the airlines JAL and Japan Transocean Air, uses the system to handle passenger reservations, ticketing, and check-in. According to its announcement, Amadeus notified the airline on October 23, 2026, that […]
Sony ISP subsidiary data breach exposes 2.5 million customer records
Sony Network Communications has confirmed a data breach that compromised approximately 2.5 million records containing current and former customers’ personal information. A Sony Group Corporation subsidiary, the company provides telecommunications and technology services, acting as an internet service provider (ISP) in Japan. The breach occurred on October 19 and was detected four days later, when […]
Nikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposed
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a new data breach, the third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million personal information records. The Japanese giant says subsets of the data contained personally identifiable information and other sensitive details, but most records contained no identifying info. The company said that 150,000 records contained at least one of the […]
Burger King Japan data breach exposes 11 million customer records
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast-food giant Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records. Founded in 1953 in Florida, Burger King is now a multinational fast-food chain with nearly 20,000 locations worldwide, including 350 in Japan. In a Thursday press release, Burger […]
Nippon Columbia malware incident exposes 8.6 million karaoke fan records
Daiichi Kosho, a major Japanese entertainment system maker, disclosed that a malware infection at its contractor, Nippon Columbia, exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records. The company is the largest karaoke maker in Japan, operating 521 karaoke venues nationwide, including the Big Echo chain, one of the most popular karaoke box chains in […]
Germany arrests alleged core Qilin ransomware member after extradition
Germany has arrested a Russian national suspected of being a leading member of the Qilin ransomware group following extradition from Japan earlier this month. Japan has confirmed the extradition to Germany, with the National Police Agency saying that the suspect was detained after arriving in the country as a tourist. “When a Russian national for […]
Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s IDCF Cloud used by govt clients
IDC Frontier, a major Japanese cloud and digital infrastructure company, disclosed that its IDCF Cloud service was targeted in a ransomware attack that caused an outage at a data center cluster serving the eastern part of the country. The company says that the attack started on October 7 at 3:40 AM local time, forcing a […]
Nikkei discloses breaches of employees’ Microsoft, Google email accounts
Over the weekend, Japanese publishing giant Nikkei disclosed that unknown attackers recently breached two employee email accounts and used one to send thousands of phishing emails. In a Sunday statement, the company said an employee’s Google Workspace account was accessed in late July, exposing the personal information of employees and business partners. Nikkei changed the […]
Japan’s Keio confirms ransomware attack disrupted business systems
Keio Corporation (Keio), a major private railway operator in Japan, said its network was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems. Following a system failure in the early hours of Saturday, the company confirmed the attack and shut down its network to prevent additional damage. The company said […]