Japan’s largest brewery is reeling after an Asahi Cyberattack linked to the ransomware gang Qilin, exposing sensitive data affecting more than 1.5 million individuals.
The company confirmed that the Qilin group has added Asahi to its dark-web leak site, despite Asahi’s initial announcement that no group had yet claimed responsibility.
A Devastating Attack on Japan’s Largest Brewer
Japanese beer maker Asahi Group Holdings announced that its domestic operations were crippled after a September ransomware intrusion forced distribution centers, customer service systems, and portions of factory operations offline. International operations remain unaffected.
In its public statement, Asahi said it detected the intrusion on September 29 when attackers “accessed the network through equipment located at our Group’s site.”
The company explained:
“There is a possibility that personal information stored on servers in the data center may have been exposed. We have not confirmed any instance of this data being published on the internet.”
