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Nov 3, 2026
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GMO missed cyberattack for 11 weeks, files of customers stolen.
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GMO Internet Group Inc. failed to detect a cyberattack on a subsidiary's service for about two and a half months, enabling the intruder to steal files from customers' computers, the company revealed Nov. 2.
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The attack first breached a customer's server on Aug. 5, but GMO did not detect anything unusual until Oct. 20.
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As many as 26,739 servers may have been affected.
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The original article in Japanese is available here.
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Please note that a paid subscription is often required to read the full Japanese version.
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GMO chief apologizes, takes pay cut over cyberattack, GMO Internet Group Inc. chief Masatoshi Kumagai apologized on Nov. 2 over a cyberattack on a group cloud service that put customer information at risk and said he would forfeit 30% of his pay for three months.
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There were security problems with the services system, Kumagai said at a news conference in Tokyo.
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The cyber warfare landscape has fundamentally altered in just the last few months.
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The Japan Times features a massive report on Masatoshi Kumagai, the CEO of GMO Internet Group.
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And he was visibly upset, right?
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He was literally in tears at a press conference.
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And you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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Japan's online service company GMO Internet Group is apologizing for security breaches from cyber attacks and has promised to compensate victims.
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The company's CEO and other executives bowed deeply at a press conference today in Tokyo after confirming that hackers got into its anime.com desktop cloud service online.
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affecting dozens of security firms and other businesses.
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I'm Roger Pradhan with the news from Tokyo.
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Japan's GMO Internet Group has held its first news conference addressing the cyber attack on its foreign exchange trading platform.
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The company's chairman apologized for the attack.
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He also admitted management failed to fix security vulnerabilities it had been warned about two years earlier.
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I'm Roger Paran with the news from Tokyo.
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Japan's GMO Internet Group has held its first news conference addressing the cyber attack on its foreign exchange trading platform.
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The company's chairman apologized for the attack.
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He also admitted management failed to fix security vulnerabilities it had been warned about two years earlier.
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I'm Yamaguchi Hiroaki in Tokyo.
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Japan's GMO Internet Group has held its first news conference addressing the cyber attack on its foreign exchange trading platform.
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The company's chairman apologized for the attack.
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He also admitted that management fails to fix security vulnerabilities it had been warned about two years earlier.
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Japan's GMO Internet Group is set to hold its first news conference addressing the cyber attack on its foreign exchange trading platform.
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This comes as the tech company faces questions about its response to known security vulnerabilities.
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Executives, including Group CEO Kumagai Masatoshi, will be in attendance.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, this is the the Asahi Shimbun Asia and Japan Watch News Briefing.
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GMO Chief Apologizes, Takes Pay Cut Over Cyberattack GMO Internet Group Inc.
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Chief Masatoshi Kumagai apologized on November 2nd over a cyberattack on a group cloud service that put customer information at risk and said he would forfeit 30% of his pay for three months.
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There were security problems with the services system, Kumagai said at a news conference in Tokyo.
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Lim said the company's immediate priorities include client onboarding, protections, education and market insight.
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Elsewhere, GMO Internet Group has acknowledged that its own security division identified vulnerabilities in the trading server service breached by hackers more than two years before the incident.
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Founder Masatoshi Kumagai said the warning was raised in April 2024, but never reached senior management.
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Four rounds of emergency maintenance failed to resolve the underlying problem.
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685 affected people there.
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GMO Internet Group.
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Out of Japan, we don't know much else.
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