{"id":171779,"date":"2025-10-01T02:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171779\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:18:26","slug":"japans-beer-making-giant-asahi-stops-production-after-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171779\/","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":171780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77096,77097,84,2475,59,19694,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-171779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asahi","tag-asahi-group-holdings","tag-business","tag-cyberattack","tag-gb","tag-in-brief","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}