Cybersecurity and risk of information-system outages
First written in FY2024. 1 of 2 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2025.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 2 of 6 companies on the "Worse" side.
17 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「The group has built and operates information systems for information sharing and greater operational efficiency. Although it is working to strengthen crisis-management measures, taking cybersecurity and other risks into account to ensure the security of its information systems, it cannot completely eliminate the risks of confidential and personal information leaks caused by unexpected unauthorized external access or computer viruses, or of information-system and production stoppages caused by damage to equipment or communications-line failures. Depending on the scale of the damage, these events could affect the group's operating results and financial position.」
The company continues to disclose the possibility of cyberattacks, information leaks, communications failures and production stoppages, as well as its crisis-management response. - FY2024First statedAnnual report
「The company cannot completely eliminate the risks of confidential and personal information leaks caused by unexpected unauthorized external access or computer viruses, or of information-system and production stoppages caused by damage to equipment or communications-line failures. Depending on the scale of the damage, these events could affect the group's operating results and financial position.」
The company explicitly identifies, for the first time, unauthorized access, computer viruses, information leaks, and production stoppages caused by equipment or communications failures in the operation of information systems as business risks.