Unauthorised access to Arara raises email leak concerns in Yaita
SpilloverSpillover from the Arara incident · View original incident →Unauthorised access to email distribution provider Arara raised concerns that email addresses associated with the city of Yaita may have been exposed. On 13 November, it emerged that email addresses had been leaked in four cities and towns in Tochigi Prefecture. The specific scale of the damage in Yaita and details of its response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- City of Yaita
- Original incident
- Arara email service cyber-attack exposes 81.33 million email addresses
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to email distribution provider Arara
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- A possible leak of email addresses associated with Yaita came to light in connection with unauthorised access to Arara.
- Email address leaks affecting four cities and towns in Tochigi Prefecture came to light.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Arara incident.
Arara email service cyber-attack exposes 81.33 million email addresses
81.3mImpact: 81,329,467 email addresses and some customers' member information
Japan's Arara Message email delivery service was breached through a web server vulnerability, exposing email addresses and some customers' member information. Further investigation put the number of unique email addresses exposed at 81,329,467. The attacker also misused the service to send up to approximately 7.13 million emails impersonating credit card companies, and the company isolated the servers and suspended its email delivery service entirely.
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