New Delhi: Japan’s retail sector has been hit by one of its most disruptive cyberattacks to date after a ransomware breach at Askul Corporation forced some of the country’s biggest consumer brands, including Muji, Loft, and Sogo & Seibu, to halt online sales and suspend logistics operations indefinitely.

The incident has once again exposed the fragility of centralized e-commerce infrastructures, where a single supplier becoming compromised can cascade into a nationwide retail shutdown. Askul, a key logistics and e-commerce solutions provider, confirmed on Sunday that its systems were taken offline due to a ransomware infection, triggering a complete halt in order processing and shipping services.

Retail operations frozen as Ransomware halts core systems

Askul issued a public statement

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