747 Hiroshima Bank card loan customer records leaked
SpilloverSpillover from the SMBC Consumer Finance incident · View original incident →A total of 747 Hiroshima Bank card loan customer records were leaked. Unauthorised access to SMBC Consumer Finance, which provides loan guarantee services for the bank, led to the leak of bank customer information.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Hiroshima Bank
- Original incident
- SMBC Consumer Finance data breach affects up to 320,118 customers
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 747 card loan customer records
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to SMBC Consumer Finance, the bank's loan guarantee services contractor
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- It emerged that 747 Hiroshima Bank card loan customer records had been leaked as a result of unauthorised access to SMBC Consumer Finance.
Original incident
This is spillover from the SMBC Consumer Finance incident.
SMBC Consumer Finance data breach affects up to 320,118 customers
320.1kImpact: Personal information of up to 320,118 customers
A third party breached Japan's SMBC Consumer Finance loan guarantee operations system and transferred data containing the personal information of up to 320,118 people outside the company. The compromised information included names, addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, email addresses, driving licence numbers, workplaces, annual incomes and guarantee contract details. The company detected the intrusion on 2 November, blocked access and temporarily shut down the system, while some partner financial institutions also suspended loan applications.
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