Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-10-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nikkei America
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Nikkei loses roughly 29 million dollars after an employee of the Nikkei America subsidiary is tricked by scammers to send the funds to a bank account they controlled.