Incidents in sector:
Kubota North America said an unauthorised party had month-long access to its network in early 2026, reaching HR files with the personal data of employees and dependents.
Japanese beverage group Sapporo Holdings disclosed suspected unauthorised access at its overseas subsidiaries Pokka in Singapore and Sleeman Breweries in Canada, shutting down affected systems to investigate.
Nissan's Americas operations disclosed that attackers exploiting a zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft accessed sensitive data belonging to current and former employees in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
The fast-growing extortion group TheGentlemen added German naval-defense electronics manufacturer Atlas Elektronik to its dark-web leak site on 28 June 2026, claiming a double-extortion attack dated to around 25 June, though the TKMS subsidiary had not publicly confirmed any breach.
Indian automaker Bajaj Auto disclosed that a ransomware attack detected on the morning of 23 June 2026 affected systems at the company and its technology subsidiary, prompting containment measures and regulatory filings with CERT-In and SEBI.
Japanese motor and electronics giant Nidec confirmed a ransomware attack on its Taiwanese subsidiary Nidec Chaun Choung Technology, after which the Blackfield gang claimed the breach and demanded a $2 million ransom.
Tata Electronics confirmed a cyberattack after data-extortion group World Leaks published over 200,000 stolen files, including documents researchers say reference Apple and Tesla.
Imaging and materials company Eastman Kodak confirmed that an unauthorised third party temporarily accessed a limited amount of company data, after the ShinyHunters extortion gang listed Kodak on its dark-web leak site and claimed to hold more than 2.2 million records of customer and internal corporate data.
A dataset dubbed FortiBleed exposed valid Fortinet FortiGate VPN credentials — including plaintext passwords — for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries, the product of a Russian-speaking crew that reused passwords from earlier breaches and infostealer logs rather than any new Fortinet vulnerability.
The Nitrogen ransomware group claimed on its dark-web leak site that it had stolen over 11 million files from Foxconn's North American facilities, including confidential information belonging to customers Apple, Dell, Google, Intel, Nvidia, and Sony. Foxconn said affected factories were resuming normal production.
In early May 2026, West Pharmaceutical's plant at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache (Aisne, France), which employs around 770 people making rubber components for syringes and medical devices, was hit by a cyberattack that halted production for roughly two weeks; no data exfiltration was confirmed.
On 5 May 2026, the SpaceBears ransomware group listed French industrial-equipment manufacturer Erla Technologies SAS on its leak site, claiming to have stolen employee and client personal data, financial documents and project files — including documentation tied to a French army client.
Disclosed on 30 April 2026, a data leak at French smart-home manufacturer Delta Dore exposed personal data of at least 374 people registered on its professional training portal, formation-pro.deltadore.fr, prompting affected-user notifications.
Filair, a French industrial metal-fabrication company, was hit by the Lamashtu extortion group, which exfiltrated and published nearly 50 years of internal archives — tens of thousands of files spanning CAD engineering data, financial records and HR documents.
Gauthier Tissus, a French manufacturer of technical woven and finished fabrics, was listed on the Lamashtu extortion group's leak site, which published roughly 54 GB (about 8,500 files spanning 1996–2026) of internal financial, HR, commercial and R&D data.
French champagne group Vranken-Pommery disclosed on 10 April 2026 that a ransomware attack on its external online-ticketing provider exposed personal data of visitors to its Reims tourist sites, including names, dates of birth, contact details and reservation records, though banking data was not affected.
On 8 April 2026, the French metal-grating manufacturer Diamond was listed on the Gunra ransomware group's leak site, which claimed to have exfiltrated confidential OneDrive and SharePoint documents covering projects, clients and internal operations.
On 6 April 2026, the Akira ransomware group listed French aerospace connector manufacturer Gauthier Connectique (a Nicomatic company) on its leak site, threatening to publish 42 GB of exfiltrated data including employee ID documents, technical drawings, financial records and NDAs.
French cosmetics manufacturer Aircos Pascual, a subsidiary of the Anjac group, is targeted by a ransomware attack claimed by the group
Champagne house Veuve Clicquot disclosed in April 2026 that a ransomware attack on its third-party visit-booking provider exposed personal data of people who reserved cellar tours since at least July 2024, including names, dates of birth, phone numbers and emails.
In early April 2026, the French cannery La Quiberonnaise confirmed that unauthorized access to its systems exposed customer personal data — names, postal addresses, email addresses and phone numbers — with the company notifying affected clients by email and reporting the breach to the CNIL.
French manufacturer Serap, the world's leading maker of farm milk cooling tanks, was hit by an Akira ransomware double-extortion attack disclosed on 2 April 2026, with the group threatening to publish around 50 GB of stolen internal data.
The Iranian state-linked group Handala compromised Stryker's Microsoft Intune administrator account and used the endpoint-management tool to wipe more than 200,000 servers, mobile devices, and corporate endpoints across 79 countries — bringing operations at one of the world's largest medical-device makers to a halt.
In early March 2026, French aerospace and automotive fastener manufacturer LISI Group was hit by the Qilin ransomware gang, which exfiltrated a limited set of corporate data — bank account/IBAN details, supply contracts, confidentiality agreements and employee information — from two ancillary sites.
The Akira ransomware group listed French roller-shutter component manufacturer Zurflüh-Feller as a victim in early 2026, threatening to publish around 66 GB of stolen corporate data, including employee identity documents, financials, contracts and NDAs.
On 2 January 2026, a dark-web forum member claimed to be selling an internal Trescal customer database of roughly 70,981 unique records, exposing names, business emails, phone and fax numbers, job titles, company names and French SIRET numbers.
On 12 December 2025, France Ventilation, a French ventilation and air-treatment specialist, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers' payment card details — card number, expiration date and CVV — raising a direct risk of banking fraud.
In November 2025, the Cl0p extortion gang listed French tyre maker Michelin on its leak site, claiming to have stolen internal manufacturing, engineering, supply-chain, financial and HR files via the Oracle E-Business Suite zero-day (CVE-2025-61882).
Qilin ransomware operators encrypted servers across Asahi's Japanese data centres, halting ordering, shipment, and production at 30 factories, leaking 27 GB of internal data, and exposing personal information of approximately 1.5 million customers, employees, and contacts.
A cyberattack on Britain's biggest carmaker forced JLR to shut down its global IT network and halted vehicle production in the UK, China, Slovakia, India, and Brazil for five weeks — now considered the most economically damaging cyber incident in UK history.
A misconfigured Amazon cloud storage system run by Volkswagen software subsidiary Cariad exposed data on about 800,000 EV owners across VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda, including contact details and precise vehicle location data for roughly 466,000 cars.
LockBit operators exploited the Citrix Bleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) to enter Boeing's parts and distribution business. Boeing did not pay; LockBit leaked roughly 45 GB of data, including Citrix logs, email backups, supplier lists, and 2020 pricing data.
Ferrari disclosed that a threat actor had breached its systems and demanded a ransom over stolen client contact data — names, addresses, emails and phone numbers — which the luxury carmaker refused to pay.
LockBit operators infiltrated parts of German auto-parts giant Continental AG's IT systems in August 2022. Containment was initially declared, but in November the group put 40 terabytes of stolen Continental data on its dark-web leak site, offered for sale or destruction for $50 million.
Predatory Sparrow compromised industrial control systems at three major Iranian steelmakers, halting production and — in CCTV footage the group released — causing a machine at Khouzestan Steel to spew molten metal and fire across the factory floor.
An attack on Toyota plastics-and-electronics supplier Kojima Industries paralysed one server enough to halt production at all 14 of Toyota's Japanese plants — about 13,000 vehicles of daily output — making the case the canonical example of just-in-time manufacturing's cyber-fragility.
REvil affiliates exploited a SQL injection zero-day in Kaseya's VSA remote-management platform to push ransomware to ~60 MSPs and through them to ~1,500 downstream organisations. The largest supply-chain ransomware attack on record.
REvil affiliates encrypted the world's largest meat processor, shutting down beef and pork plants across the U.S., Canada, and Australia. JBS paid an $11 million ransom — one of the largest publicly-confirmed ransomware payments at the time.
Attackers breached Swedish physical-security firm Gunnebo, stole 19 GB of data, and after the company refused to pay, leaked bank-vault floor plans, alarm schematics, and security arrangements for high-value clients including a Swedish parliament building.
A ransomware attack paralysed weaving-machine manufacturer Picanol's plants in Ieper (Belgium), Romania, and China, halting production for ~2,300 employees for over a week. Trading in Picanol shares was suspended during the disruption.
A ransomware-style cyber incident forced Danish hearing-aid giant Demant to shut down IT systems worldwide, crippling production and order processing and causing an estimated loss of up to $95 million — one of the costliest single ransomware events on record.
Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro lost most of its global IT estate to the LockerGoga ransomware. Hydro publicly refused to pay, ran operations on paper for weeks, and set the editorial standard for transparent incident communication.
A WannaCry ransomware variant spread through unpatched Windows 7 fabrication tools at TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, halting production at plants in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan and causing an estimated $170 million in losses.
A destructive wiper disguised as ransomware, propagated via a compromised Ukrainian accounting software update. Estimated $10 billion in global damage — the most economically destructive cyberattack in history.
A North Korean ransomware worm that exploited the EternalBlue SMB vulnerability to spread to ~200,000 systems across 150 countries in 24 hours. Paralysed the U.K.'s NHS and crippled manufacturing globally.
Kaspersky uncovered StoneDrill, a sophisticated new wiper that destroyed data at Saudi petrochemical and industrial targets alongside the Shamoon 2 campaign, and which had spread as far as a victim in Europe.
Attackers used spear-phishing to pivot from a German steel mill's office network into its production network, manipulating industrial controls so a blast furnace could not be shut down properly and suffered massive physical damage.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence services jointly developed and deployed Stuxnet — the first widely-known cyber weapon to cause physical damage. The worm targeted Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility and destroyed approximately 1,000 IR-1 centrifuges over 2009–2010.