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Japan's Times Car hack exposes data of up to 948,500 members

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Japanese car-sharing service Times Car was hacked, exposing the information of up to 948,500 members. Former members' driver's licenses were also leaked, raising concerns over a policy of retaining data for seven years after membership ends. Times Car decided to offer users compensation worth ¥3,000, while victims pursued a class action lawsuit.

Key facts

Affected organization
Times Car
Incident type
Data breach
Occurred / detected
Not confirmed
Scale of damage
Information of up to 948,500 members
Cause / method
External hacking
Location
Japan

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    Timeline

    1. Victims of the data breach prepared to file a lawsuit.
    2. The leak of information belonging to up to 948,500 members and the seven-year data retention policy came to light.
    3. Leaks of former members' driver's licenses and theft of reward points were revealed.
    4. Times Car announced its policy for compensating users for the data breach.
    5. Times Car's losses related to the data breach were reported to be ¥5.5 billion.
    6. The class action lawsuit was reported to have 130,000 participants, and proving a causal link between the data breach and large charges incurred by some victims emerged as an issue.

    10 related reports

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