2026 Kao — global counterfeit-product alert (consumer safety / brand abuse; not ERP database leak)
Data compromised
Potential harmful ingredients to buyers; no centralized consumer DB cited
Technical writeup
Kao issued Jan 2026 notices about counterfeit cosmetics posing as genuine Kao SKUs—primarily product integrity rather than central PII breach, yet still a consumer-trust incident type tracked for CPG security teams.
Root cause
Illicit manufacturing and grey-market branding