Breaches and incidents
Starts Publishing (OZmall): mass overseas access exposes up to 447,610 member emails
Starts Publishing said its systems detected a large volume of unauthorized access from overseas on 26 Sep, and up to 447,610 OZmall members’ email...
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- Starts Publishing said its systems detected a large volume of unauthorized access from overseas on 26 Sep, and up to 447,610 OZmall members’ email addresses plus some names and prefectures may have been viewed; phone numbers and full addresses were not, and cards are handled externally.
- Root cause: the company said it identified the cause but did not describe it.
- No attacker named.
- Affected pages were taken offline, the system modified to block the access, and service resumed after confirming no tampering. (The notice page is undated; its URL is dated 27 Sep.)