Nikkei says attackers stole 1.83 million cloud-service records
Original title: Hackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From Nikkei
About 150,000 records held names and contact details; Nikkei says no card data or misuse was found.
Japanese media company Nikkei disclosed that on the morning of October 7 attackers used previously compromised credentials to access a cloud service used for system development and stole 1.83 million records. About 1.68 million contained only non-identifying information; 150,000 included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth, and 120,000 contained email addresses. Nikkei says no credit card data was taken, credentials were revoked, regulators were notified, and as of October 16 it found no misuse, disruption or tampering.
Unconfirmed: Nikkei's investigation of scope and the nature of the compromised data was still continuing.
- Access used previously compromised credentials, not a stated software flaw.
- 150,000 records included names, addresses, emails, phones and birth dates.
- 120,000 additional records contained email addresses.
- Nikkei previously disclosed a Slack account hack less than a year earlier.
Impact: Theft of 1.83 million records, including personal data in a subset
- ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
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