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Kadokawa confirms data leak after BlackSuit attack
Japanese media group Kadokawa confirmed contracts and staff data at subsidiary Dwango leaked after a ransomware attack that took its Niconico service offline.
- Organisation
- Kadokawa
- Disclosed
- 1 July 2024
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Contracts, staff data
- Attacker
- BlackSuit
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- The Record ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Kadokawa confirms data leak after BlackSuit attack”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 1 Jul 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-07-01-kadokawa-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Record, https://therecord.media/japan-anime-giant-data-leak-ransomware.
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