Japanese online shopping center operator Rakuten Inc. said. On Friday the group ‘s computer security problem revealed 1,486,291 sets of personal and physical information for external access.
Of the data affected, managed by Rakuten, a credit card subsidiary of Rakuten Card Co. and e-money business Rakuten Edy Inc., at least 614 sets were acquired from overseas.
The incident occurred because the Rakuten Group did not notice or address a change in the security options of an external sales management system used by the group.
The change, which occurred as part of Jan’s system upgrade, has left. 15, 2016, the externally accessible data. The group identified the November 24 security hole this year after receiving a warning from an outside expert.
The group completed a necessary change of position by Nov. 26. Since then, third-party access has not been confirmed, Rakuten said.
At Rakuten Card, the open information included the names of corporate representatives and direct owners who applied for business loans, outstanding loan amounts, use of borrowed money and data from sponsored driver licenses.
Other information that was impacted included data about companies and employees who requested documents to open stores at cybermall Rakuten and the names and phone numbers of people who requested Edy’s e-money transfers when the phones failed they are smart.
Rakuten apologized for causing inconvenience and inconvenience to customers and pledged compensation for any damage resulting from the misuse of open personal information.
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