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Suntory Group Personal Data Leak (About 90,000 Employees and Partner Staff, and Other Groups): Names and Email Addresses Leaked After Unauthorized Access to an External Cloud Service, and What Applicants and Customers Should Do

Suntory Group announced on November 2, 2026 that it had confirmed unauthorized access by a third party to an external cloud service the group uses, and that some of the files the third party downloaded contained personal information. It detected anomalies on October 28 and blocked the access, and on October 29 confirmed that personal information was included. The personal information confirmed as leaked by November 1 falls into seven groups: names and email addresses of about 90,000 group employees and employees of partner companies; email addresses of 7,323 people registered as of the end of 2023 with the corporate experience programme Mar de Shine; applicant My Page registration data and so on (name, email address, phone number, etc.) of 7,173 applicants to the business-track open selection of Suntory Holdings' 2026 new-graduate recruitment; names and phone numbers of 1,097 people stored on two company mobile phones of Suntory Beverage Solution; names, email addresses and phone numbers of 324 employees and partner-company employees of Monte Bussan; names and delivery location information of 96 Izutsu Maisen delivery customers and delivery staff; and names and job titles of 25 employees of Suntory's business partners. Credit card and other payment data are not included. No misuse had been confirmed at the time of the notice. The company says it is contacting the people affected individually. Our conclusion: do not open links in messages claiming to be Suntory or a group company about selection, job offers, deliveries or business dealings; check through the official site you open yourself or the contact points on the notice page.