Asahi Group

3MediumPossibleAnnounced

A cyberattack on Asahi Group disrupted order and shipping systems for over two months. Customer, employee and partner data may have leaked, and leakage from some PCs was confirmed. Logistics normalized in February 2026.

This incident was imported from a dataset that compiles public announcements, and we are still checking it against the sources. Counts and causes will be updated after the check. Sources are in Japanese.

Cause
Unauthorized access
Occurred
2025-09-29
Sector
Manufacturing
Operational impact
Core operations stopped

Data involved

DataStatusCountGroupEvidence
Email addressPossible leakNot disclosed—Source(opens in a new tab)
NamePossible leakNot disclosed—Source(opens in a new tab)
Postal addressPossible leakNot disclosed—Source(opens in a new tab)
Date of birthPossible leakNot disclosed—Source(opens in a new tab)

Counts are the figures the organization announced. Because the same person may be counted more than once, we do not add the rows together.

What users should do

  • Watch for emails and texts pretending to be the company

General steps based on the type of data involved. Check the organization’s notice or help line to see whether you are affected.

Tools for this kind of attack

Picked from the cause of the incident: tools that help you check your own systems for the same kind of weakness, or spot the warning signs.

Vuls

Impact Reaches others
future-architect/vuls

An agentless vulnerability scanner that checks the packages installed on a server and lists the ones affected by known CVEs.

Purpose
Defense
Type
Command line
Difficulty
Intermediate
License
CopyleftGPL-3.0
Category
Vulnerability scanning
Actively updatedstars12,302Last update 2026-10-21
Read the Vuls review

Wazuh

Impact Local only
wazuh/wazuh

A free security platform (SIEM/XDR) that collects logs, configuration, and vulnerability data from agents on your endpoints and shows it all in one dashboard.

Purpose
Defense
Type
Self-hosted server
Difficulty
Advanced
License
CopyleftGPL-2.0(一部の構成要素は Apache-2.0)
Category
Vulnerability scanning / Forensics
Actively updatedstars17,410Last update 2026-10-24
Read the Wazuh review

Suricata

Impact Reaches others
OISF/suricata

An intrusion detection and prevention engine (IDS/IPS) that matches network traffic against rules and records suspicious activity as alerts.

Purpose
Defense
Type
Self-hosted server
Difficulty
Intermediate
License
CopyleftGPL-2.0
Category
Network
Actively updatedstars6,773Last update 2026-10-23
Read the Suricata review

Sources

  1. アサヒグループ:サイバー攻撃に係る漏えいのおそれがある個人情報についてwww.asahigroup-holdings.com · Published 2026-07-17(opens in a new tab)
  2. 【お知らせ】個人情報に関するお問合せ専用窓口の設置についてwww.asahigroup-holdings.com(opens in a new tab)
  3. 第102回定時株主総会 事前アンケート及びライブ配信でのご意見、ご質問に対するご回答www.asahigroup-holdings.com · Published 2026-03-25(opens in a new tab)
  4. サイバー攻撃被害の再発防止策とガバナンス体制の強化についてwww.asahigroup-holdings.com · Published 2026-02-18(opens in a new tab)