Atsushi Teraoka

Reporter, City News and Investigative Reports Unit, Nikkei Inc

Atsushi Teraoka is a reporter, exclusively in charge of cyber security issues in NIKKEI Inc., Japanese newspaper company and the parent company of Financial Times. He covers topics such as corporate security, national security, influence operations, cybercrime, and anti-money laundering, as well as conducts investigations based on OSINT.

He began his career as a reporter in 2008 and jumped into cyber security field in 2014 to cover the incident at Mt. Gox, which was the world’s biggest crypto exchange at that time and lost a tremendous amount of Bitcoin due to cyberattack.

He completed an educational training program at the Kyushu University Cyber Security Center in 2023 and Chevening Cybersecurity Fellowship Program by the UK government in 2024. He is also planning to study the US’s initiatives in national cybersecurity at University of Maryland as a Fulbright Scholarship fellow in 2025.