Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

SecurityWeekSecurityWeek

Cybercrime

Nikkei Says Customer Data Likely Impacted in Ransomware Attack

Asian media giant Nikkei has disclosed a ransomware attack that might have impacted customer data.

Asian media giant Nikkei has disclosed a ransomware attack that might have impacted customer data.

Based in Tokyo, Nikkei, Inc. is a media company specialized in business, financial, and industry news, and which owns Financial Times and The Nikkei. With a daily circulation of over 3 million, The Nikkei is the world’s largest financial newspaper.

On Thursday, Nikkei announced that a server at its headquarters in Singapore was infected with ransomware last week.

“Unauthorized access to the server was first detected on May 13, prompting an internal probe. Nikkei Group Asia immediately shut down the affected server and took other measures to minimize the impact,” the media giant said.

Nikkei also noted that customer data was likely stored on the affected server, but that its investigation into the nature and scope of the attack continues.

The company said that it hasn’t seen the potentially affected data being leaked publicly.

Nikkei is not the only major Japanese organization to fall victim to a cyberattack this year. Car manufacturer Toyota and car parts maker Denso disclosed incidents in February and March, respectively.

Related: DarkSide Ransomware Hits Toshiba Tec Group

Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.

Related: Asian Food Distribution Giant JFC International Hit by Ransomware

Related: Honda Ransomware Confirms Findings of Industrial Honeypot Research

Written By

Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.

Click to comment

Trending

Daily Briefing Newsletter

Subscribe to the SecurityWeek Email Briefing to stay informed on the latest threats, trends, and technology, along with insightful columns from industry experts.

Join the session as we discuss the challenges and best practices for cybersecurity leaders managing cloud identities.

Register

SecurityWeek’s Ransomware Resilience and Recovery Summit helps businesses to plan, prepare, and recover from a ransomware incident.

Register

Expert Insights

Related Content

Cybercrime

The changing nature of what we still generally call ransomware will continue through 2023, driven by three primary conditions.

Cybercrime

A recently disclosed vBulletin vulnerability, which had a zero-day status for roughly two days last week, was exploited in a hacker attack targeting the...

Cybercrime

As it evolves, web3 will contain and increase all the security issues of web2 – and perhaps add a few more.

Cybercrime

Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group informed some customers last week that their online accounts had been breached by hackers.

Cybercrime

Zendesk is informing customers about a data breach that started with an SMS phishing campaign targeting the company’s employees.

Ransomware

A SaaS ransomware attack against a company’s Sharepoint Online was done without using a compromised endpoint.

Cybercrime

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft calls attention to a series of zero-day remote code execution attacks hitting its Office productivity suite.

Artificial Intelligence

The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 has demonstrated the potential of AI for both good and bad.