Citizen fears data leak of about 100,000 customers after unauthorized access at contractor

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Citizen Watch announced on the 6th that a server at a contractor company was subjected to unauthorized access, and that the stored personal information of approximately 100,000 customers may have been leaked. No secondary harm has been confirmed, the company said. According to Scalar Communications, which Citizen had entrusted with handling customer inquiries, the unauthorized access occurred between the night of October 2 and the morning of October 3, and the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and other data of about 100,000 people may have been leaked. The company said that if bank account or credit card information had been entered in the inquiry details field, it may also have been compromised. The affected parties are users of the websites for the Citizen, Bulova, and Frederique Constant brands, and no unauthorized access to Citizen itself has been confirmed.

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Semiconductors▼ · 1 stocks
Citizen Watch Co, Ltd.
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Citizen disclosed a data breach at its contractor exposing personal data of ~100,000 customers of its brands.

Cloud & Digital Infrastructure▼ · 1 stocks
Scala, Inc.
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Scalar Communications, Citizen's inquiry-handling contractor, suffered the unauthorized server access that caused the leak.

Off-coverage companies 2

BulovaPrivate▼ Negative
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Bulova website users are among those whose personal data may have been leaked in the breach.

Frederique ConstantPrivate▼ Negative
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Frederique Constant website users are among those whose personal data may have been leaked in the breach.

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