Nikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposed

Nikkei Inc. disclosed a new data breach, the third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million personal information records.

The Japanese giant says subsets of the data contained personally identifiable information and other sensitive details, but most records contained no identifying info.

The company said that 150,000 records contained at least one of the following data types: full names, email addresses, physical addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth. Email addresses appeared in 120,000 records.

The remaining 1.68 million records contain no identifiers, the company said, and no credit card information was exposed.

Nikkei Inc. is a major Japanese business news and financial information group, owner of Financial Times, the country’s largest business-focused media company.

The company employs over 10,100 people and has an annual revenue of $2.5 billion (¥393.8 billion).