Lifull Admits to User Data Breaches

October 1, 2024
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The Japanese real estate portal Lifull has revealed that the data breach affecting its real estate marketplace, Kenbiya.com, was more extensive than initially reported. Earlier this month, the company disclosed that 217,953 private and corporate users were impacted. However, it has now raised the total by 60,153, bringing the number of affected individuals to 278,106.

The compromised data includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and sensitive information such as annual income and asset ownership.

Lifull Co. stated, "We have contacted each user and related party who may have been affected by the unauthorized access via email with the subject ‘Apologies for the information leak due to unauthorized access to our server.’" The company also emphasized its commitment to preventing future incidents, adding, "We take this incident very seriously and will further strengthen our operations, such as managing where various information is stored and access rights, as well as internal training."

Lifull operates the real estate marketplace Homes.co.jp and manages a portfolio of real estate brands across the globe as well as aggregator sites such as Mitula, Trovit and Nestoria.

October 1, 2024
Since March 2020 Edmund's job has been to read about, write about, collect data on, analyse and generally know about real estate marketplaces and the companies that run them. Before that he worked at the aggregator Mitula Group (which became Lifull Connect) for five years.

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