[Ecommerce] data hacking

[Takeshi Muramoto]

info:

The article is regarding beauty treatment firm. Ando more, the same incident
has been found 5/27/02. It was on housing material company.
In the case, the personal information on more than 45,000 customers has been
leaked on an Internet message board. The boad was same as following case.

Takeshi Muramoto

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020528b4.htm

Beauty treatment firm Kommy Corp. said Monday that personal information on
more than 37,000 customers who have used its Web site has been leaked.
The company, which operates Tokyo Beauty Center aesthetic salons, said
someone hacked into their site's server and stole data on 37,810 people who
had accessed the site between April 2000 and this month. The data include
names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.
The company was alerted to the leak only when it was revealed on an Internet
message board at around 1 a.m. Sunday. The site was shut down at 8:30 a.m.
The firm later posted an apology letter on its Web site and is working with
police to find the party responsible for the leak, company officials said.
The Japan Times: May 28, 2002