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The story
It has emerged that Nissui Logistics, the logistics subsidiary of major frozen food maker Nissui, has been unable to ship or receive any of its products — including frozen foods — since October 7, after unauthorized access to an outsourced data center triggered a system failure. Personal information and customer data managed by the Nissui Group may also have been leaked; the extent of the damage and the recovery timeline are still being investigated. On 5ch, posters traded warnings to stock up on cash — recalling past incidents where similar outages froze payment systems — alongside observations that even though the trucks themselves can still run, logistics grinds to a halt anyway once inventory data becomes unreadable, with anxiety spreading over the string of cyberattacks hitting the food and distribution industry.
Major food manufacturer Nissui has disclosed that a subsidiary suffered unauthorized access resulting in a system failure, leaving it unable to ship or receive products.
According to Nissui, a system failure occurred on the 7th at Nissui Logistics, the subsidiary responsible for logistics services. The cause was unauthorized third-party access to an outsourced data center used by Nissui Logistics, and as a result Nissui is unable to ship or receive any of its products, including frozen foods.
Personal information and customer data managed by the Nissui Group may also have been leaked, and the company says it is currently investigating the scope of the damage as well as the outlook for recovery.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Credit cards and e-payments are going to get sketchy too — worst case, even the banks go down.
Even if you've got cash, there might not be anywhere left that'll take it.
Seriously, you're right.
There've been a few times before when credit cards just stopped working.
If your bank lets you get a paper passbook, it's probably worth having one.
Though I guess it can't be helped if it's an online-only bank with just a web passbook.
Hmm, so close! (lol)
Well, this time it's a global-scale thing, so…
The trucks can run fine, but
nobody knows the inventory numbers anymore, so placing and receiving orders grinds to a halt.
During the Glico incident, a warehouse worker said they couldn't even tell which storage slot had what in it, lol
Probably a lot of people trying it just in case it works.
I really want the AI to respond with "Taiho!" (net slang mimicking a cop shouting "you're under arrest")
Correcting myself —
it should be "Reported!" (a deliberately garbled spelling of "I've reported this")
"Protect your own information yourself."
Every kind of infrastructure is going to grind to a halt.
In the US, haven't attacks on infrastructure already started?
So that means 5ch shuts down too…
They should just physically unplug it.
Guess we're going back to doing business by phone…
Should I just go buy stock in a shredder company?
The attackers are probably watching the reactions and enjoying themselves, so wouldn't they target those next?
If my 5ch posts ever got linked to my real identity, I'd just die.
It's probably only a matter of time before X gets targeted too.
Glad I don't use X.
Nobody even bothers with 5ch anymore, right?
There haven't been any outages here lately anyway.
then Nissui —
where next, I wonder (lol)
Going by the pattern, next up might be Nippon Ham.
Maybe Nippn (the flour maker) gets hit next — a follow-up strike on all the Japanese who fled from rice to wheat?
Re: #220
"Nichi-Ham" then! (a mashup of Nichirei and Nippon Ham)
Nippn seems like a suspicious candidate (just a guess)
Just corporate client info?
I think this one's about the logistics system itself.
There've been a lot of personal-data-leak stories lately,
but ransomware attacks haven't let up either.
Background and key points of this story
This incident traces back not to Nissui itself, but to unauthorized access at an outsourced data center used by its logistics subsidiary, Nissui Logistics. It’s a textbook example of a “supply-chain” style breach, where damage spreads through a vendor even when a company’s own defenses are solid — recalling similar incidents that have hit the food and distribution industry, such as Glico’s core-system outage in 2024. As of this report, the personal data leak remains only a “possibility” — whether a leak actually occurred, and its scope, have not been confirmed, a nuance that’s easy to overlook. On the thread, reactions ranged from recommendations to keep cash on hand (drawing on past incidents where similar outages froze credit-card payments) to comments pointing out a quirk specific to logistics operations: even when the trucks are running fine, orders and receiving still grind to a halt once inventory data becomes unreadable.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “Major frozen food maker Nissui: logistics subsidiary hit by cyberattack, unable to ship or receive any products, personal data leak also possible.”
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