Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nikkei Inc.
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Nikkei Inc. announces that personal information on a total of 12,514 people had been leaked after a computer used by a group company employee was infected with a virus in an apparent cyberattack.