Nissan employee data exposed in Oracle PeopleSoft hack
Nissan confirmed a breach of employee data linked to attacks targeting Oracle PeopleSoft. The attack was linked to the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability, and damage spanning several countries was disclosed. Nissan disclosed the employee data breach on 29 June.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Nissan
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Employee information in several countries; number of people unknown
- Cause / method
- Exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day vulnerability CVE-2026-35273
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- Nissan disclosed a breach of employee data linked to the Oracle zero-day attacks.
- The breach was reported to span several countries.
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