Security · High impactFan score 5 · Tier D
Iris Ohyama data cloud breach exposes info of 7.7 million customers
BleepingComputer · By Bill Toulas ·
The Brief
- Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama disclosed unauthorized access to a third-party cloud service it used.
- Personal information of about 7.7 million people may have been exposed, per the disclosure reported by BleepingComputer.
- The company operates the Iris Plaza shopping platform.
Why it matters
Customer data from a large Japanese e-commerce operator may be exposed through a third-party cloud service, highlighting risks in vendor-hosted customer data.
Who’s affected
- Iris Plaza customers
- Iris Ohyama customers
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- #cloud-security
- #third-party-risk
- #e-commerce
- #japan
Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama, the operator of the Iris Plaza shopping platform, disclosed that personal information belonging to about 7.7 million people may have been exposed after unauthorized access to a third-party cloud service the company used. [...]