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GMO hack suspect likely in Asia, 18-year-old white hat says as attribution stalls abroad

GMO Internet Group's president apologized and admitted weak security after attackers took over an FX trading service. A young researcher who traced the intruders says the trail ends at a foreign IP address.

ApplyNow breach exposes 396,920 people, including My Number and bank details

The Tokyo recruiter says it missed a publicly disclosed flaw in an analytics tool, letting an attacker work inside its systems for a month.

Companies reverse course on Arara breach as customer data leaks mount

Mos Food Service, Workman and IIJ are among the latest to report exposed email addresses after unauthorized access at the email delivery provider, which estimates as many as 380 client companies are affected.

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GMO says breach went undetected for two and a half months as in-house warning stalled