Mitsui Sumitomo and Aioi Nissay Dowa: unauthorized access detected, policyholder sites taken offline
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and Aioi Nissay Dowa detected suspicious access to their policyholder sites and took them offline from 3 November. No data leak has been confirmed.
Disclosed
2026-11-03
Organizations involved
2
Leaked or at risk
Unknown
Downtime
Unknown
What happened
Unauthorized access hit the policyholder sites of the two MS&AD group insurers. [3]
Both companies took their policyholder pages and other services offline, first announcing it as emergency maintenance. [1] [2] [3]
Both updated their notices, explaining that the services were stopped after suspicious third-party access was detected. [1] [2]
Impact
At Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited, nine services were down on the morning of 4 November: the policyholder page, one-day insurance, online travel, golf and cycling insurance, My Agent, a disaster alert service, the corporate web service and e-G1. At Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd., the policyholder page, One Day Supporter, e-travel overseas insurance, My Agent, the corporate web service and e-G1 are down. [1] [2]
No data leak has been confirmed, and both companies are investigating. [3]
Timeline
- Detected 2026-11-02
- Disclosed 2026-11-03
- 1 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Intrusion]
- Impact
- [Service outage]
- Entry point
- Unknown
Data exposed or at risk
–
Services hit
Organizations involved
[Breached][Moderate]Tokyo, ShibuyaFinance and insurance
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd.Also detected suspicious access and stopped six services, including its policyholder page, One Day Supporter, e-travel overseas insurance and My Agent.
[Breached][Moderate]Tokyo, ChiyodaFinance and insurance
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, LimitedDetected suspicious third-party access and stopped nine services, including its policyholder page, one-day insurance, online travel, golf and cycling insurance, My Agent and its corporate web service.
Sources
- [1][Official]ご契約者さま専用ページ等のサービス一時停止について【更新】Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance · 2026-11-04
- [2][Official]ご契約者さま専用ページのサービス一時停止についてAioi Nissay Dowa Insurance · 2026-11-04
- [3][News]三井住友海上とあいおい、不正アクセス検知 顧客向けサイト一時停止Nikkei · 2026-11-04 12:44