( October 23, 2026, 07:33 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Park24, a Japanese parking and car-sharing operator, said Friday that a forensic investigation found that a vulnerability in its Times Car web system was exploited in a breach involving 6.6 million accounts, with evidence that about 1.46 million encrypted identity-document images were externally transmitted and about 892,000 more were accessed but not transmitted. The publicly listed company will offer 3,000 yen ($20) in cash or vouchers to customers whose encrypted ID images showed evidence of both access and transmission, and said it has secured the intrusion route and plans further security and governance measures by year-end.Statement is attached (in Japanese)....
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