Arara email service breach exposes up to 2.23 million TKC user email addresses
SpilloverSpillover from the Arara incident · View original incident →Additional disclosures revealed that up to 2,230,812 email addresses belonging to users of TKC-operated systems were exposed through a breach of Arara’s email service. Investigators are examining whether information belonging to users of municipal online application services, including those in Yokohama and Kawasaki, was also affected.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- TKC
- Original incident
- Arara email service hack exposes 81.33 million email addresses
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Up to 2,230,812 user email addresses
- Cause / method
- Breach of Arara’s email service
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- Additional disclosures revealed the exposure of up to 2,230,812 email addresses belonging to users of TKC-operated systems.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Arara incident.
Arara email service hack 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 abused the service to send up to approximately 7.13 million emails impersonating credit card companies, and the company isolated the servers and completely suspended its email delivery service.
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