Investigating

Akatake Engineering: ransomware incident may have exposed staff and partner-contact personal data

Partial server-file encryption found Aug 10, 2026; first notice Aug 13. Final report (Oct 13) found no clear exfiltration traces but could not rule out theft; possible exposure of 125 employee records and 11,587 partner-contact records.

Last updated: 2026-11-09

Overview

Employee 125 and partner-contact 11,587 are subsets and are not summed → count blank.

Timeline

  1. Occurred
  2. Discovered
  3. Disclosed

Organization response

Per the notice, the organisation investigated and contained the incident, notified individuals and offered monitoring or protective resources.

What you can do

Be wary of emails, SMS or calls impersonating the organisation; do not open links or attachments or enter passwords or card details. Change reused passwords on other services.

Sources

  1. ランサムウェア感染によるシステム障害発生のお知らせとお詫び(第1弾)赤武エンジニアリング株式会社 · 2026-11-09
  2. ランサムウェア感染によるシステム障害発生のお知らせとお詫び(最終報)赤武エンジニアリング株式会社 · 2026-11-09

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