Japanese telco giant KDDI says 12 million emails exposed in major cyberattack

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• KDDI confirms unauthorized access affecting six ISPs, with up to 14.22 million email addresses and passwords exposed
• Some passwords were unencrypted; with estimates citing 12.2 million emails and 7.6 million passwords compromised
• Company urged rapid password updates, coordinated countermeasures with ISPs, and pledged recurrence prevention

KDDI, one of Japan’s largest telecommunications providers, has confirmed it was recently hacked and lost millions of emails and unencrypted passwords belonging to its clients’ customers.