2.68 million pieces of personal data breached in Japan in 2018

guest · Apr 25, 2019

2.68 mil. pieces of personal data breached in Japan in 2018
April 25, 2019
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190424/p2g/00m/0dm/096000c

At least 2.68 million pieces of personal information held by over 100 Japanese entities were leaked in 2018, a Kyodo News survey found Wednesday.
The leakages were those confirmed and made public by 104 organizations including companies such as hotel operators and universities as well as French hotel reservation service Fastbooking SAS, whose data breach exposed information of people who had reserved rooms at Japanese hotels.

MS&Consulting Co. in Tokyo suffered the biggest leak affecting 570,000 pieces of personal data such as email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. [...]
The survey excludes personal data of Japanese Facebook users affected in a high-profile breach in October that Facebook said caused data of around 29 million people worldwide to be leaked.

This year there have already been at least two more massive leaks. [...] OGIS-RI Co., [...] in January 4.8 million [...] Toyota Motor Corp. [...] in March 3.1 million [...]
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