Security News > 2023 > October > Casio discloses data breach impacting customers in 149 countries
Japanese electronics manufacturer Casio disclosed a data breach impacting customers from 149 countries after hackers gained to the servers of its ClassPad education platform.
Casio detected the incident on Wednesday, October 11, following the failure of a ClassPad database within the company's development environment.
As of October 18, the attackers accessed 91,921 items belonging to Japanese customers and 35,049 records belonging to customers from 148 countries and regions outside Japan.
On Monday, October 16, Casio reported the incident to Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission and is collaborating with law enforcement authorities, assisting with their breach investigation.
Casio is working with external cybersecurity and forensics experts to conduct an internal investigation to find the underlying causes of the incident and draw up countermeasures in response to the breach.
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