Unauthorized access to Arara raises email leak concerns in Yaita
SpilloverSpillover from the Arara incident · View original incident →Unauthorized access to email distribution provider Arara raised concerns that email addresses associated with the city of Yaita may have been exposed. On November 13, it emerged that email addresses had been leaked in four cities and towns in Tochigi Prefecture. The specific scale of the damage in Yaita and details of its response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- City of Yaita
- Original incident
- Arara email service hack exposes 81.33 million email addresses
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Unauthorized access to email distribution provider Arara
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- A possible leak of email addresses associated with Yaita came to light in connection with unauthorized access to Arara.
- Email address leaks affecting four cities and towns in Tochigi Prefecture came to light.
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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