{"id":231478,"date":"2026-02-17T01:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/washington-hotel-in-japan-discloses-ransomware-infection-incident"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:14:49","slug":"washington-hotel-in-japan-discloses-ransomware-infection-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/washington-hotel-in-japan-discloses-ransomware-infection-incident","title":{"rendered":"Washington Hotel in Japan discloses ransomware infection incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/washington-hotel-in-japan-discloses-ransomware-infection-incident.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Hotel brand in Japan has announced that that its servers were compromised in a ransomware attack, exposing various business data.<\/p>\n<p>The hospitality group has established an internal task force and engaged external cybersecurity experts to assess the impact of the intrusion, determine whether customer data was compromised, and coordinate recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Hotel, a brand operating under Fujita Kanko Inc. (WHG Hotels), is a business-focused hospitality chain with 30 locations across Japan. WHG has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fujita-kanko.co.jp\/corporate\/business.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">11,000 rooms<\/a> over its properties and has nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/fujita-kanko.com\/common\/pdf\/integratedreport2023e1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5 million guests every year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Hotel brand in Japan has announced that that its servers were compromised in a ransomware attack, exposing various business data. The hospitality group has established an internal task force and engaged external cybersecurity experts to assess the impact of the intrusion, determine whether customer data was compromised, and coordinate recovery efforts. Washington Hotel, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}