danger! Credit cards of more than 6,000 members of Japanese travel website SkyTicket were leaked and may have been stolen

SkyTicket, a Japanese travel and hotel booking and air ticket booking platform, has leaked credit card information of 6,140 members and may have been stolen. (Picture taken from SkyTicket official website)

Adventure (アドベンチャー), the operator of Japan's SkyTicket booking and air ticket travel platform, announced on the 16th that the credit card information of 6,140 members was leaked. The company has informed credit card operators to monitor whether there is any improper use, and reminded the above-mentioned members to be careful of possible fraud.

According to "NHK" reports, SkyTicket announced on the 9th of this month that its data storage server had been illegally invaded, resulting in the leakage of more than 14 million pieces of information, including member names and phone numbers. SkyTicket claimed at the time that the leaked personal information did not include credit cards, but changed its statement on the 16th.

It is understood that a total of 6,140 people who paid with credit cards and registered as members between February 2017 and June 2018 had their credit card information leaked. SkyTicket reminds that if there is any fraud, please contact the credit card issuer as soon as possible and apologize for the error in the initial announcement. In the future, we will try our best to improve the system to prevent similar situations from happening again.