Hakko Corporation data breach: 9665 accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-02-06
In March 2019, the Japanese solder-related business Hakko Corporation suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 10k customer records including email and physical addresses, phone numbers, names, usernames, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from Mar 28, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 6, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a Hakko Corporation account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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