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TOKYO – Japanese second-hand goods retailer Bookoff Group Holdings Ltd. on Friday became the latest company to announce a data breach, saying information pertaining to up to 6.43 million accounts were leaked though unauthorized access to the member data management system at one of its subsidiaries.
Bookoff said the stolen information included members’ names, birthdays, addresses, email addresses, membership numbers and reward program identification numbers. It has not confirmed any fraudulent use of the information.
Payment details including credit card numbers were not stored in the affected system.
The operator of the Bookoff second-hand goods stores said it confirmed unauthorized access on Tuesday, with investigations later determining that personal information of its members had been compromised.
“We will endeavor to upgrade our security framework and work to prevent a recurrence,” the company said in a statement.
The recent account comes as dozens of Japanese companies have reported unauthorized access to their servers and subsequent information leaks in recent days.
A data breach at the “Times Car” car-sharing service exposed information from about 6.6 million accounts, including images of 1.6 million driver’s licenses, while major convenience store operator Lawson Inc. and karaoke venue operator Daiichikosho Co. have also been hit.
Major travel agency H.I.S. Co. said Wednesday customer passport information had been leaked late last year, saying it became aware of the potential data breach in February but took time to grasp the extent of the damage.
SoftBank Corp. subsidiary IDC Frontier Inc. also said Wednesday that a cyberattack involving ransomware had disrupted part of its cloud service for corporate customers including frozen food maker Nissui Corp.’s logistics subsidiary.
