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Additionally, the company will distribute a goodwill payout of 5,000 yen (around $32) to every customer, group CEO Masatoshi Kumagai revealed. Leading the corporate response, GMO Internet Group, a major digital financial and infrastructure services conglomerate, announced that customers will be fully reimbursed for financial losses resulting from unauthorized access following an attack on its foreign exchange trading platform, according to a report by news agency Reuters. Meanwhile, the mounting corporate fallout has drawn a response from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who confirmed that the administration plans to compile an emergency package of counter-cyberattack measures by next week. As part of a defensive strategy, the government announced that it will establish a specialised unit tasked with simulating AI-driven attacks to expose structural flaws across enterprise and public networks before malicious actors can weaponize them.
Japanese companies are moving to pay financial compensation directly to affected users following a relentless wave of cyberattacks that has paralysed digital services, compromised customer databases and sparked broader concerns regarding national economic stability.