Nikkei Confirms Two Employee Cloud Account Breaches Arabian Post

(MENAFN- The Arabian Post) clearfix"> Nikkei has disclosed unauthorised access to two employee cloud accounts, with one compromised Microsoft 365 mailbox used to send about 9,000 phishing emails to staff, journalistic contacts and other external recipients.

The Japanese media group said on October 4 that a third party was believed to have logged into an employee's Microsoft 365 account. On September 30, messages from the account were sent inside the company and to people who had communicated with several Nikkei employees, directing recipients to malicious websites.

Nikkei said recipients' names and email addresses, as well as the contents of some emails, may have been exposed. The company changed the account password and said it had detected no further unauthorised logins after taking that step.

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