125,788 customer email addresses exposed at five Kewpie Group companies
SpilloverSpillover from the Arara incident · View original incident →The breach of Arara’s email service also exposed 125,788 customer email addresses at five Kewpie Group companies. Those affected had received automated replies to campaign entries, inquiries and similar submissions, and the group suspended automated emails and began notifying them individually.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Kewpie Group
- Original incident
- Arara email service hack exposes 81.33 million email addresses
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- 2026-11-08
- Scale of damage
- 125,788 customer email addresses
- Cause / method
- Breach of Arara’s email service
- Location
- Japan
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Timeline
- The exposure of customer email addresses at five Kewpie Group companies was disclosed, along with the suspension of automated emails and the start of individual notifications.
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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