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Television Saitama: unauthorized access to its website server may have leaked about 39,000 viewer submissions from prize and feedback forms

A flaw in its website was exploited, and about 39,000 viewer submissions from prize and feedback forms, including names and addresses, may have leaked.

Disclosed

2024-11-13

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. From about this time until about midnight on November 12, it detected suspicious traffic on its website server. [1]

  2. It announced the case. An investigation by its server monitoring company found that a flaw in part of its website programs had been exploited, and it said the cause and impact were still under investigation. [1] [2]

Impact

The data that may have leaked is about 39,000 submissions from prize and feedback forms, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, nicknames, ages, genders and comments. The system of its online shop "Teletamaya" was not affected, and no card data is included. ScanNetSecurity reported about 12,000 leaked records. [1] [2]

Timeline

  1. Detected 2024-11-11
  2. Disclosed 2024-11-13
  3. 2 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Web app exploit]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
Web app

Data exposed or at risk

[Name][Postal address][Phone number][E-mail address][Gender]

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]弊社ホームページに対する不正アクセスによるサイバー攻撃についてTelevision Saitama Inc. · 2024-11-13
  2. [2][News]テレビ埼玉のホームページに不正アクセス、約 1 万 2,000 件の情報漏えいScanNetSecurity · 2024-11-25 08:05