Starts Publishing: unauthorized access to the OZmall booking site

On 26 September, Starts Publishing detected a large volume of unauthorized access from abroad to OZmall, its restaurant and hotel booking site, took the affected pages offline and fixed the cause. The investigation found member data may have been viewed; the second report on 1 October put the number at up to 442,779 members and some former members. Email addresses, and for some people names and prefectures, are affected. No sign was found of phone numbers or full addresses being viewed, and card data is handled by an outside payment system. The initial maximum of 447,610 was refined to 442,779.