National Tax Agency: other people's gift tax returns visible in e-Tax My Page
On 2 October, the National Tax Agency said that the gift tax section of e-Tax My Page showed other people's gift tax returns from 8:30 on 24 September to midnight, and from 4:00 to 15:58 on 25 September. A bug introduced by a system change on 24 September to add features caused it. Returns of 79 people may have been viewed by 19 others, and with donors and tax accountants named in them, personal data of 203 people is affected.
Disclosed
2026-10-02
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
203
203
Downtime
Unknown
Timeline
- Started 2026-09-24
- Detected, Resolved 2026-09-25
- Disclosed 2026-10-02
- 8 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Misconfiguration]
- Impact
- [Data leak]
- Entry point
- Web app
Data exposed or at risk
Services hit
Organizations involved
[Breached][Major]Tokyo, ChiyodaNational government203 leaked
National Tax Agency
Sources
- [1][News]79人分贈与税申告書表示か e-Tax、改修不具合でNikkei · 2026-10-02
- [2][News]国税庁e-Taxで79人分の申告書を他人が閲覧した可能性、KSK2とは別の不具合Nikkei xTECH · 2026-10-05
- [3][News]「e-Tax」で他人の贈与税情報が一時閲覧可能に 国税庁TV Asahi · 2026-10-02