Valuence Japan: unauthorized access to the online purchase system

On 21 October Valuence Japan, which runs buying services such as Nanboya, said its online purchase system had been accessed by a third party and customer and employee data may have been taken. It detected the access on the 18th, closed the route and restored the service. Phone numbers of up to 1,165 customers who used it from 14 September to the morning of 18 October are affected; for up to 439 of them also names, addresses, birth dates, gender, occupation, email addresses and bank account details, and for 10 images of identity documents. In-store, home-visit and mail-in buying were not affected. It reported the case to the Personal Information Protection Commission and its Privacy Mark body.