KDDI confirms 12M email addresses, 7.6M passwords breached in cyberattack

Millions of users exposed to potential identity theft and unauthorized account access, requiring immediate password changes and security precautions.

In mid-June, one of Japan's largest telecommunications carriers discovered that the quiet infrastructure of daily digital life — email addresses, passwords, the small keys people use to move through the internet — had been taken from roughly 12 million of its users. KDDI, exploited through vulnerabilities in third-party software rather than its own systems, now faces the dual burden of containing the immediate harm and answering to a government that views the breach as a matter of national consequence. No confirmed misuse of the stolen data has emerged yet, but the gap between exposure and dam

KDDI confirms 12M email addresses, 7.6M passwords breached in cyberattack

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