diff --git a/java/CMakeLists.txt b/java/CMakeLists.txt
index a60847ead37..d8fee41fce3 100644
--- a/java/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/java/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ set(JAVA_TEST_CLASSES
   src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MergeVariantsTest.java
   src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MixedOptionsTest.java
   src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MultiColumnRegressionTest.java
+  src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MultiGetCorruptionTest.java
   src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MultiGetManyKeysTest.java
   src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MultiGetTest.java
   src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MutableColumnFamilyOptionsTest.java
@@ -477,6 +478,7 @@ set(JAVA_TEST_RUNNING_CLASSES
   org.rocksdb.MergeVariantsTest
   org.rocksdb.MixedOptionsTest
   org.rocksdb.MultiColumnRegressionTest
+  org.rocksdb.MultiGetCorruptionTest
   org.rocksdb.MultiGetManyKeysTest
   org.rocksdb.MultiGetTest
   org.rocksdb.MutableColumnFamilyOptionsTest
diff --git a/java/rocksjni/jni_multiget_helpers.cc b/java/rocksjni/jni_multiget_helpers.cc
index 99994ac7cce..2909170e92e 100644
--- a/java/rocksjni/jni_multiget_helpers.cc
+++ b/java/rocksjni/jni_multiget_helpers.cc
@@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ jobjectArray MultiGetJNIValues::byteArrays(
       }
 
       env->DeleteLocalRef(jentry_value);
+    } else if (s[i].code() == ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::Status::Code::kCorruption) {
+      ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::RocksDBExceptionJni::ThrowNew(env, s[i]);
+      return nullptr;
     } else if (s[i].code() != ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE::Status::Code::kNotFound) {
       // The only way to return an error for a single key is to exception the
       // entire multiGet() Previous behaviour was to return a nullptr value for
diff --git a/java/src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MultiGetCorruptionTest.java b/java/src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MultiGetCorruptionTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0a47550dcab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/java/src/test/java/org/rocksdb/MultiGetCorruptionTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package org.rocksdb;
+
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.hamcrest.CustomTypeSafeMatcher;
+import org.hamcrest.Description;
+import org.junit.ClassRule;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
+import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
+
+public class MultiGetCorruptionTest {
+  private static final byte[] KEY = "key".getBytes(UTF_8);
+  private static final byte[] VALUE;
+
+  static {
+    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+      sb.append("value" + i + "\n");
+    }
+    VALUE = sb.toString().getBytes(UTF_8);
+  }
+
+  @ClassRule
+  public static final RocksNativeLibraryResource ROCKS_NATIVE_LIBRARY_RESOURCE =
+      new RocksNativeLibraryResource();
+
+  @Rule public TemporaryFolder dbFolder = new TemporaryFolder();
+
+  @Rule public ExpectedException exception = ExpectedException.none();
+
+  @Test
+  public void getKeyException() throws RocksDBException, IOException {
+    createCorruptedDatabase();
+    try (Options options = new Options().setCreateIfMissing(true).setParanoidChecks(true);
+         RocksDB db = RocksDB.openReadOnly(options, dbFolder.getRoot().getAbsolutePath())) {
+      exception.expect(RocksDBException.class); // We need to be sure, exception is thrown only
+      db.get(KEY); //   on GET operation. Require careful data corruption.
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void multiGetKeyException() throws RocksDBException, IOException {
+    createCorruptedDatabase();
+    try (Options options = new Options().setCreateIfMissing(true).setParanoidChecks(true);
+         RocksDB db = RocksDB.openReadOnly(options, dbFolder.getRoot().getAbsolutePath())) {
+      exception.expect(RocksDBException.class);
+      exception.expect(new CustomTypeSafeMatcher<RocksDBException>(
+          "Status.Code equal to Corruption") {
+        @Override
+        protected boolean matchesSafely(RocksDBException e) {
+          return e.getStatus().getCode() == Status.Code.Corruption;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        protected void describeMismatchSafely(RocksDBException e, Description mismatchDescription) {
+          mismatchDescription.appendText(
+              "was " + e.getStatus().getCodeString() + " " + e.getMessage());
+        }
+      });
+
+      List<byte[]> keys = new ArrayList<>();
+      keys.add(KEY);
+      db.multiGetAsList(keys);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private void createCorruptedDatabase() throws RocksDBException, IOException {
+    try (Options options = new Options().setCreateIfMissing(true).setParanoidChecks(true);
+         RocksDB db = RocksDB.open(options, dbFolder.getRoot().getAbsolutePath())) {
+      db.put(KEY, VALUE);
+      try (FlushOptions flushOptions = new FlushOptions().setWaitForFlush(true)) {
+        db.flush(flushOptions);
+      }
+    }
+
+    File[] files = dbFolder.getRoot().listFiles((dir, name) -> name.endsWith("sst"));
+    assertThat(files).hasSize(1);
+
+    try (RandomAccessFile file = new RandomAccessFile(files[0], "rw")) {
+      file.seek(30);
+      file.write("corrupted".getBytes(UTF_8));
+    }
+  }
+}