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Japan's Digital Agency suffers data breach affecting 240,000 people

September 15, 2026, 11:45 UTC · Tokyo, Japan · Asia-Pacific · no longer in the live window

Hackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN product to steal personal information of approximately 240,000 individuals from Japan's Digital Agency.

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