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Sony's Japanese ISP exposes 2.5 million customer records
Names, contacts, DOBs and connection IDs were taken, plus 54,000 emails with passwords.
- Organisation
- Sony Network Communications
- Disclosed
- 28 October 2026
- Affected
- 2,500,000
- Data
- Names, contacts, DOBs, connection IDs
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Sony's Japanese ISP exposes 2.5 million customer records”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 28 Oct 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-10-28-sony-network-communications-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sony-isp-subsidiary-data-breach-exposes-25-million-customer-records/.
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