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Daiichi Kosho (via contractor Nippon Columbia Group): malware on a contractor PC exposes 8.7 million karaoke customer and employee records
Daiichi Kosho said Nippon Columbia Group (NCG), the contractor handling its customer data, found malware on an employee’s computer on 5 Oct 2026.
- Disclosed
What happened
- Daiichi Kosho said Nippon Columbia Group (NCG), the contractor handling its customer data, found malware on an employee’s computer on 5 Oct 2026; 8,631,000 customer and 93,000 employee records (names, gender, birth dates, emails, phone numbers; no passwords) were on the affected system. No confirmed leak.
- Root cause: malware on a contractor employee’s PC with access to customer data.
- No attacker named.
- NCG isolated the system and reset credentials.
Sources
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nippon-columbia-malware-incident-exposes-86-million-karaoke-fan-records/
- https://sharkstriker.com/blog/october-2026-data-breaches/
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