Editorial

15:37 JST, November 28, 2025

The cyberattack on major beer and beverage company Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., has escalated into a large-scale leak of personal information, spreading the damage.

While focusing every possible effort on recovering from the system failure, the company must minimize the misuse of the leaked information.

Asahi suffered a large-scale system failure starting from Sept. 29 after being hit by a cyberattack that used ransomware, which is malware sent by attackers who demand money in exchange for restoring data. On Nov. 27, President Atsushi Katsuki held the first press conference since the outage, explaining the details of the cyberattack and future countermeasures.

The serious part is that it was found that personal information on a total of about 1.91........

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