Unauthorised access to Arara exposes 85,565 Tokyo Gas customer email addresses
SpilloverSpillover from the Arara incident · View original incident →Unauthorised access to Arara resulted in the leak of 85,565 email addresses belonging to Tokyo Gas customers. The impact on Tokyo Gas became known on 12 November.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Tokyo Gas
- Original incident
- Arara email service cyber-attack exposes 81.33 million email addresses
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 85,565 customer email addresses
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to Arara
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- It was revealed that unauthorised access to Arara had resulted in the leak of 85,565 Tokyo Gas customer email addresses.
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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