Nissan Chemical: unauthorized logins to its cloud environment
On 1 July, Nissan Chemical detected suspicious activity in the cloud environment it uses and found that on 30 June a third party had logged in without authorization and created rogue servers. It blocked the access path and disabled the accounts involved. Its findings of 5 August said there were traces of access from the rogue servers to some other servers, but no data leak, tampering or malware infection was found, and business was not disrupted.
Disclosed
2026-07-16
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
Timeline
- Started 2026-06-30
- Detected 2026-07-01
- Disclosed 2026-07-16
- 16 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Credential abuse]
- Impact
- Entry point
- Unknown
Data exposed or at risk
–
Organizations involved
[Breached][Moderate]Tokyo, ChuoManufacturing
Nissan Chemical Corporation
Sources
- [1][Official]当社システムに対する不正アクセスについて(第 2 報)Nissan Chemical · 2026-08-05
- [2][Official]当社システムに対する不正アクセスについてNissan Chemical · 2026-07-16