Unauthorized access to Arara may have exposed up to 4,700 Fukushima personal data records
SpilloverSpillover from the Arara incident · View original incident →Unauthorized access to Arara was found to have potentially caused a personal data leak affecting the City of Fukushima as well. Up to 4,700 records may have been exposed.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- City of Fukushima
- Original incident
- Arara email service hack exposes 81.33 million email addresses
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Potential leak of up to 4,700 personal data records
- Cause / method
- Unauthorized access to Arara
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- It emerged that unauthorized access to Arara may have exposed up to 4,700 personal data records held by the City of Fukushima.
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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