2026 Nikkei — two employee cloud-mail breaches; 1,646 PII + ~9,000 phishing emails

Verified company notices — Nikkei Inc. disclosed two employee cloud-mail compromises over the weekend of Oct 4–5, 2026. (1) Late July unauthorized access to an employee Google Workspace account exposed personal information of employees and business partners; Nikkei reset the password after Google notified it in early August; ~1,646 individuals’ names/emails may have been exposed; readers/interviewee databases not in that census. (2) September unauthorized access to an employee Microsoft 365 account used on Sep 30 to send ~9,000 phishing emails with malicious links to internal staff and interviewees; passwords changed; no further unauthorized logins confirmed; recipients contacted to delete messages. Company has not attributed a named threat actor or confirmed the two incidents are linked. recordsAffected 10646 approximates 1,646 + 9,000 impacted contacts/recipients; companyConfirmed true.