Overview
- GMO will hold a company press conference on Monday, Nov. 2, with chairman and CEO Masatoshi Kumagai expected to explain the timeline and company response.
- GMO GlobalSign disclosed on Nov. 1 that 45,030 personal records tied to 2,492 corporate customers were exposed after a storage configuration mistake that persisted from 2017 to September 2026.
- The exposed files included names, email addresses, employer and employee ID details and linked service names but did not include credit card or other payment data, the firm said.
- GMO announced on Oct. 21 that its FX automated‑trading cloud service suffered unauthorized access affecting about 26,739 servers and that some customers reported unfamiliar operations in trading accounts.
- Company leaders have told police they will hand over evidence and have asked the government to consider active cyber‑defense measures; investigators and officials are watching for secondary harm, wider policy changes, and the results of criminal probes.