Iris Ohyama data cloud breach exposes info of 7.7 million customers
Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama disclosed that unauthorized access to a third-party cloud service may have exposed personal information belonging to roughly 7.7 million customers of its Iris Plaza shopping platform.
Why this matters: Seven and a half million people did not hand their data to whoever ran that cloud server. They handed it to Iris Ohyama. That distinction matters, because the company made the choice to use a third party and is responsible for what happens to customer data when it does. Third-party cloud breaches keep showing up in these disclosures because vendor security is often weaker than the company's own. Customers have no visibility into those choices and no say in them.
Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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