Peach Airlines was also affected by improper access and the Japanese government took a serious look at it

(Central News Agency, Tokyo, 10th, comprehensive foreign news reports) Japan's Peach Airlines announced that the system was affected by improper access by a partner manufacturer, and the delivery of approximately 1.89 million emails was delayed. Japanese companies and local administrative units have been hit by cyber attacks one after another, and several Japanese ministers have expressed that they take the matter seriously.

Fuji News Network (FNN) and Jiji News Agency reported that Peach Airlines, headquartered in Izumisano City, Osaka Prefecture, stated that it was unable to send notification letters to passengers for the completion of ticket reservations. The reason was that IDC Frontier, a subsidiary of SoftBank in Tokyo, suffered improper access.

It has not yet been confirmed that any information has been leaked. Peach Aviation will gradually switch to alternative servers to resume sending emails starting from the 8th of this month.

In addition, Temairazu, the operator of the accommodation facility reservation system TEMAIRAZU, also announced yesterday that the system had been improperly accessed, resulting in the leakage of up to 4.45 million pieces of personal information. This may cause the names, phone numbers, reservation information and other information of people who have reserved accommodation to be viewed by outsiders. However, the leaked information does not include credit cards.

BOOKOFF, a Japanese chain of second-hand books and merchandise stores, was also affected by the disaster. The subsidiary's membership management system was improperly accessed, and up to 6.43 million members' personal information may have been leaked. The number of people affected is still being confirmed, but the information that may be leaked includes name, birthday, gender, email address, phone number, address and membership number, etc.

The company said that after confirming that it had been improperly accessed, it had cut off communications from the source of the attack and taken measures to block external access to related systems.

The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that JR East Group said on the 9th that a total of about 6 million personal information from its ticket booking websites and credit card companies may be leaked. The email addresses and credit card expiration dates of approximately 2.06 million members of the ticket booking website Ekinet and "Adult's Holiday Club" are suspected to have been leaked. The cause of the incident was improper access to IDC Frontier, a subsidiary of SoftBank.

In addition, View Card, a credit card company under the JR East Group, may have had about 4.03 million email accounts leaked; JR Kyushu also announced on the 9th that up to about 1.3 million online member email accounts may have been leaked.

Adventure, a Tokyo-based company that operates the travel booking website Skyticket, announced that more than 14 million customer information was leaked. Due to improper access to the business management system, in addition to the bank account numbers of approximately 17,780 customers, the login passwords were also leaked.

Japanese companies and local administrative units have been hit by cyber attacks one after another. On the 9th, the Japanese government has required operators that handle personal information to quickly update their software and use multi-factor authentication such as fingerprints.

Japan's National Cyber ​​Security Coordination Office called on businesses on the 9th not to use information technology products that have stopped providing support and to delete information that is no longer in use.