Japan's Keio confirms ransomware attack disrupted business systems

Keio Corporation (Keio), a major private railway operator in Japan, said its network was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting  some of its business systems.

Following a system failure in the early hours of Saturday, the company confirmed the attack and shut down its network to prevent additional damage.

The company said it is investigating the extent of the impact and whether the attackers accessed any customer or business partner information.

Keio is a large Japanese railway operator with 85 km of track and 69 stations, as well as a separate hospitality business of 25 hotels. The company has over 2,200 employees and a reported annual revenue of about $2.6 billion.

“In the early hours of September 26, 2026, we confirmed a ransomware attack on our group's servers. We have reported the incident to the police and are conducting an investigation into the attack's route and damage with the cooperation of external experts,” Keio says.

The incident appears to have affected only the hospitality side of Keio’s business, not train operations.

A separate announcement published on the company’s Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo website is warning of possible delays on some customer-facing services.

Local media outlets have reported that the cyberattack disrupted the firm's payment systems.

At the time of writing, BleepingComputer could not find a ransomware group claiming the attack on Keio.

BleepingComputer has contacted the company to request more information about the incident, and we will update this post with their response once it reaches us.

Tokyo Metro has also disclosed a cyber incident over the weekend in which attackers gained unauthorized access to its systems and accessed 59,000 member email addresses.

Although both Keio and Tokyo Metro are Japanese railway operators, it is unclear if the organizations were targeted in a coordinated campaign by the same threat actor.

Tokyo Metro is a major transit operator that runs nine subway lines covering 195 km and 180 stations, carrying an average of 7 million passengers daily.

The company said the breached systems contained only email addresses and that it has already identified and closed the security weakness the attackers used in this case.

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