Science & Tech · Cybersecurity · 19 hrs ago
Shogakukan says nearly 2 million member records may have leaked
Shogakukan says nearly 2 million member records may have been exposed after an unauthorized access incident at Arara, the company it uses for email distribution.
The records were linked to Shogakukan ID and other membership services in Japan.
The data may include email addresses, birth dates, gender and nicknames, but not credit card details.
Arara told Shogakukan on November 2 that its records could be affected, and Shogakukan confirmed on November 5 that its entrusted personal data was included.
Shogakukan had stopped sending member data to Arara's email system on October 28.
The company says it has found no specific harm to users so far and is urging them to watch for suspicious emails.
Shogakukan said information from 1,993,665 member records may have leaked.
The records included Shogakukan ID and other membership information used across its services.
The incident followed unauthorized access to Arara, the company handling Shogakukan’s email distribution work.
The information may include email addresses, birth dates, gender and nicknames, but not credit card details.
Shogakukan said it had not confirmed any specific secondary harm and urged users to watch for suspicious emails.
- Who
- Shogakukan said its members’ information may have leaked after unauthorized access at Arara.
- What
- Information from 1,993,665 member records may have been exposed.
- When
- Shogakukan received notice on November 2 and confirmed on November 5 that its entrusted personal information was in the affected data. It announced the possible leak on November 9.
- Where
- The unauthorized access affected Arara’s email distribution system; Arara is based in Minato, Tokyo.
- Why
- Arara suffered unauthorized access to its email distribution system.
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Shogakukan stopped linking member information to Arara’s email distribution system.
Arara notified Shogakukan that its information was among the data potentially affected.
Shogakukan confirmed that the affected data included personal information it had entrusted to Arara.
Shogakukan announced that information from 1,993,665 member records may have leaked.
- Potentially affected records
- 1,993,665
- Service provider
- Arara
- Information potentially included
- Email addresses, birth dates, gender and nicknames
- Credit card details
- Not included
- Secondary harm
- No specific cases confirmed so far