Line Apologizes For The Leaking Data Of 130.000 User Accounts Of Their Non-cash Payment Application

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JAKARTA - Payment data from about 130.000 user accounts in Japan and overseas on smartphone cashless payment app Line Pay Corp., a service operated by main messaging app Line Corp., was exposed on the internet for more than two months until the end of November, it said. that company.

Monday this week Line Pay said that information accidentally uploaded by its group company, which was viewable between September 12 and November 24, including the payment amount, date, and time during the promotional program held from December 2020 to April this year, but not include data such as username, address or credit card number.

While no damage has been reported so far from the information leak, it is still possible to identify users through special analysis, Line Pay said, quoted from Kyodo News on December 8.

The company said it had confirmed 11 instances where information was accessed externally, warning users that they could receive suspicious messages from potential fraudsters.

"We sincerely apologize for causing great trouble and concern," the company said.

Meanwhile, according to Radio Taiwan International, the data leak this time was allegedly caused by an employee's mistake when they wanted to conduct a field survey, by intentionally uploading user account data to the GitHub hosting site used by software developers.

According to data as of June, Line Pay has around 40 million users in Japan. At the end of November, it was reported that Line PAY could not be used by the public in Japan for approximately one hour. And at that time, there were about 25.000 transactions that were repeated. In response to this, Line Pay said that this leak had nothing to do with the incident in November.