Japan

Privacy & Data 4 min Burger King Japan Says Attackers Took 11.18 Million App Member Records, Close to Its Whole App Base Names, birth dates and phone numbers leaked in a breach from 2 to 7 October. The company had passed 10 million... PR Priya Nair 16 Oct Cyber Threat Intel 4 min Japan Hands a Suspected Qilin Ransomware Leader to Germany After Arresting Him on Holiday Investigators in North Rhine-Westphalia watched the gang for months, then learned the 28-year-old Russian was... KE Kenji Tanaka 12 Oct Cybersecurity 4 min Ransomware Hit Tokyo Rail Operator Keio. Its Trains Kept Running. Keio confirmed the attack on 26 September and cut off parts of its network. Business systems, including at a g... KE Kenji Tanaka 30 Sep Business 6 min A South Korean Law Could Block SK Hynix's Planned Memory Plant in Japan Miyagi wants the plant and Tokyo is offering subsidies to get it. The approval that decides the question is a... DA Daniel Koh 1 Sep Finance 6 min SBI Buys Access to 20 Million Indonesian Investors. Do They Want Yen? Indonesians earn, spend and save in rupiah, and hold dollars when they hold a stablecoin at all. The question... DA Daniel Koh 31 Aug Science 6 min Fukushima Holds 880 Tons of Debris. Crews Have Removed Under a Gram. Two trial retrievals have brought out 0.887 grams against 880 tons of fuel debris. The grams are not the proje... NA Nadia Rahim 31 Aug AI & ML 6 min Japan's Banks Waited Eleven Weeks for a Capability Anyone Can Download A US directive covered foreign nationals, so Anthropic switched the models off for everyone, including America... MA Maya Lin 31 Aug Finance 7 min SoftBank Is Refinancing Its OpenAI Bet for the Fourth Time A $40bn bridge, a $10-20bn bond sale, a record ¥1tn retail issue and a $10bn margin loan against the stake its... SA Sarah Chew 27 Aug Business 7 min Japan's Extra $944m for Rapidus Is a Budget Request, Not a Cheque The money is sought in METI's fiscal 2027 budget, and its purpose is to raise the company's capital so banks w... SA Sarah Chew 26 Aug Science 7 min Japan Launched Its Seventh Navigation Satellite. It Is Flying Six. MICHIBIKI No. 7 reached orbit on Tuesday morning, completing the launch manifest for a seven-satellite design.... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug AI & ML 7 min NEC Gave a Department Seventeen AI Employees and No Human Ones NEC has made a formal corporate division staffed entirely by AI agents, with a division head, a board, manager... MA Maya Lin 11 Aug Business 7 min Sony and TSMC Are Reported to Be Spending ¥1 Trillion on Sensors. The Reason Is Robots. A reported ¥1 trillion joint venture in Kumamoto, 60% Sony and 40% TSMC, producing next-generation image senso... EV Eva Chin 11 Aug Cybersecurity 6 min Japan Logged 19,417 Data-Breach Reports in FY2025 — What the Second-Highest Total on Record Does and Doesn't Tell You Japan's privacy regulator recorded 19,417 breach notifications in FY2025, the second-highest on record but dow... CY Cyber Team 20 Jul Cybersecurity 5 min A Cyberattack on One Cold-Chain Operator Emptied KFC Japan's Shelves — the Cost of a Single Logistics Chokepoint Nichirei, Japan's largest cold-chain logistics operator, was hit by a cyberattack on 13 July. Containing it me... CY Cyber Team 20 Jul