Iris Ohyama Cloud Breach May Expose Data on 7.7 Million People
BleepingComputer reports that Iris Ohyama, a Japanese household products maker, suffered unauthorized access to a third party cloud service used by its Iris Plaza online store. The company disclosed the incident on October 29 and suspended the site. Roughly 7.7 million people may be affected, including up to 5.8 million registered and former members and 1.9 million non members. Exposed data varies by person and can include names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, gender, dates of birth, and account passwords. The company says credit card details were not stored in the affected service, and that as of November 5 it had received no reports of misuse. Anyone with an Iris Plaza account should change reused passwords and watch for phishing. For more, visit BleepingComputer.