Asahi Data Breach Impacts 2 Million Individuals

Hackers stole the personal information of customers and employees before deploying ransomware and crippling Asahi’s operations in Japan.

Japanese beer giant Asahi on Thursday announced that hackers stole the personal information of roughly 2 million individuals in a disruptive ransomware attack in September.

Asahi disclosed the incident on September 29, the same day that it occurred. Its operations in Japan continue to be partially disrupted, as the impacted systems are gradually being restored.

In early October, the Qilin ransomware group added Asahi to its Tor-based leak site, claiming the theft of 27 gigabytes of data.

Days before that, Asahi announced that hackers had exfiltrated data from its systems. Now, it has confirmed that personal information was compromised in the attack.

According to the company, 1,525,000 people who contacted its customer services had their names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses stolen.

The hackers also exfiltrated the names ...