Nikkei Inc., a major Japanese business and financial media company, announced its third data breach in approximately one month. The latest incident exposed 1.83 million personal information records after hackers used stolen credentials to access a development system on October 7. The company notified authorities on October 11 and stated that 150,000 records contained identifying information such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers, while the remaining 1.68 million records contained no identifiers. No credit card information was exposed.
The unauthorized access occurred in the company’s cloud storage system. As of October 16, Nikkei reported no evidence that the information was misused or shared online, and found no signs of system compromise or service disruptions. The company has revoked the compromised credentials and is investigating the breach’s full scope. This incident follows two earlier breaches: one in late July involving a compromised employee Google account and another in September involving a hijacked Microsoft 365 account used for phishing emails.
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