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Ministry of Foreign Affairs data breach

JPJapan · 外務省

FNNプライムオンライン, Yahoo!ニュース and 産経ニュース reported a data breach at Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) on 30 October 2026. It affected 3,600 records.

People affected
3,600records
Reported
30 October 2026News report and 2 more

What was exposed 2

  • Email addresses
  • Names

How it happened

How
Hacking Unauthorized access occurred in a network capable of exchanging information with outside parties source
Our translation from Japanese外部とのやり取りが可能なネットワークで不正アクセスが発生し

Sources 3

News reports are read by an AI model; every fact taken from an article was checked word for word against it, and anything it could not find was dropped. · Corrections and changes

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