Airlines and banks take precautionary action as governments urge updates
Two key vulnerabilities were found in PHP, which runs on nearly 70% of all websites whose programming language can be identified. © Getty Images
TSUBASA SURUGA, SHAUN TURTON and RYOHTAROH SATOH
October 22, 2026 12:51 JST
TOKYO/CANBERRA -- Major Japanese companies from Sega to All Nippon Airways and MUFG Bank suspended websites and parts of their online services by Thursday, as authorities across Asia called for urgent security updates to tackle critical flaws in a widely used programming language.