30 Oct, 2026

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 […]

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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 […]

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Media giant Nikkei reports data breach impacting 17,000 people

Japanese publishing giant Nikkei announced earlier today that its Slack messaging platform had been compromised, exposing the personal information of over 17,000 employees and business partners. Nikkei is one of the largest media corporations worldwide, owns the Financial Times and The Nikkei, the world’s largest financial newspaper. It has approximately 3.7 million digital paid subscriptions, as […]

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