securityweek.comarticleHackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From Nikkei
Nikkei disclosed a breach of 1.83 million records from a cloud service it uses for system development, accessed on 7 October 2026 with previously compromised credentials. About 150,000 records held names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and birth dates, and 120,000 held email addresses only. Nikkei revoked the credentials and notified regulators. It found no misuse as of 16 October, and it had disclosed an earlier Slack account breach less than a year before.
TL;DR Nikkei reports that reused or stolen credentials exposed 1.83 million records in a cloud development service, 270,000 of them with personal data.
Organisations named here
- Financial Times
- Nikkei
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