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Fri 9 Oct1
JP
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The Asahi Shimbun reports: IDC Frontier Inc., a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, said Oct. 7 that a ransomware attack caused a system outage affecting 495 corporate and local government customers. The Tokyo-based company said it is still investigating the scale of the damage and whether any personal information was compromised. The cyberattack has... Source
Tue 6 Oct1
JP
JiJi reports: Japanese police have captured a Russian national believed to be a key member of the “Qilin” international hacker group and extradited him to Germany, investigative sources said Tuesday. Qilin is believed to have carried out ransomware attacks against companies worldwide, causing major damage through data encryption. In 2025, the group claimed responsibility online... Source
Mon 5 Oct1
JP
Takashi Nakamichi and Ryo Horiuchi report that Daiwa Securities, Japan’s second-largest brokerage and investment banking firm, is responding to a breach at one of its vendors. Daiwa Securities Group said information on as many as 110,000 clients may have been stolen after the servers of an external vendor were hacked. Japan’s second-largest brokerage received a... Source
Fri 11 Sept1
JP
JiJi Press reports: Japan’s Digital Agency said Friday that about 246,000 sets of personal information, including the names and email addresses of government employees, may have been compromised through the unauthorized access of a network system operated by the agency. So far, no secondary damage such as the misuse of the possibly breached personal information... Source