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Up to 6 Million JR East Members' Information Leaked, Including "Ekinet" and "View Card"

JR East and View Card have announced that more than 6 million pieces of customer information may have been leaked. The company says that a cyberattack on a SoftBank subsidiary may have resulted in the leakage of customer information for "Ekinet" and View Card. The company states that the leaked information includes up to 6 million email addresses, but does not include names or credit card numbers.
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JR East and View Card have announced that more than 6 million pieces of customer information may have been leaked. The company says that a cyberattack on a SoftBank subsidiary may have resulted in the leakage of customer information for "Ekinet" and View Card. The company states that the leaked information includes up to 6 million email addresses, but does not include names or credit card numbers.

JR East announced on the 9th that personal information, including email addresses, for approximately 6.09 million people may have been leaked from group services such as the View Card credit card. The cause is believed to be a corporate cloud service provided by IDC Frontier (Tokyo), a subsidiary of SoftBank…

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[NHK] The “IDC Frontier” system, a subsidiary of SoftBank, was affected by a cyber attack, and the total number of member information such as email addresses of JR East and subsidiaries that use this system is about 6 million email addresses, etc.

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web.nhk broke the news on Friday, October 9, 2026.
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