{"id":464664,"date":"2025-10-01T02:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464664\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:49:31","slug":"japans-beer-making-giant-asahi-stops-production-after-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464664\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s beer-making giant Asahi stops production after cyberattack\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asahi Group Holdings, the brewery giant that produces the Japanese beer Asahi and other beverages, was hit by a cyberattack Monday that forced the company to stop production in its Japanese factories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disruption is reportedly still ongoing, but with no timeline for recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asahi Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahigroup-holdings.com\/en\/newsroom\/detail\/20250929-0202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">disclosed the attack in a press release<\/a>, saying it was experiencing \u201ca system failure\u201d that forced the company to suspend order and shipment operations, as well as its call center operations. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt this time, there has been no confirmed leakage of personal information or customer data to external parties,\u201d the press release read. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, citing an Asahi spokesperson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/japans-beer-giant-asahi-group-cannot-resume-production-after-cyberattack-2025-09-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters reported<\/a> that the company has yet to resume production, cannot foresee when production will resume, and is still investigating whether all its 30 plants across Japan have suspended operations. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company did not immediately respond to a series of questions from TechCrunch, including whether the cyberattack involved ransomware or a demand for money, and whether data was stolen. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asahi Group Holdings, the brewery giant that produces the Japanese beer Asahi and other beverages, was hit by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[155227,155228,51,54885,2902,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-464664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-asahi","9":"tag-asahi-group-holdings","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cyberattack","12":"tag-in-brief","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115296637082484825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}