{"id":284093,"date":"2026-06-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:45:10","slug":"hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Steal Data of 4.38 Million Aflac Japan Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/194488\/data-breach\/hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers.html\">Hackers Steal Data of 4.38 Million Aflac Japan Customers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/194488\/data-breach\/hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers.html\">https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/194488\/data-breach\/hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"securityaffairs.com\">securityaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><h2>Hackers Steal Data of 4.38 Million Aflac Japan Customers<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span> Pierluigi Paganini<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/themes\/security_affairs\/images\/clock-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> June 30, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-43.png?fit=1400%2C488&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hackers stole data from 4.38 million Aflac Japan customers after accessing its systems for 10 days before the breach was detected.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aflac Japan disclosed that hackers stole the personal information of 4.38 million customers and agents after gaining access to its systems between June 15 and June 25. Attackers stole data from the company policyholder portal. The exposed information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, gender, security details, and insurance account information. The type of exposed data varies by customer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said it quickly contained the breach by suspending affected systems. The incident is limited to Aflac Japan and did not impact U.S. operations. Several customer services remain unavailable while the company continues recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn June 30, 2026, Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. (\u201cAflac Japan\u201d), a wholly owned subsidiary of Aflac Incorporated, a Georgia corporation (the \u201cCompany\u201d), issued a press release announcing that, on June 25, 2026, Aflac Japan discovered an unauthorized third-party had unlawfully accessed certain of Aflac Japan\u2019s systems between June 15, 2026 and June 25, 2026.\u201d reads the FORM 8-K filed with SEC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is investigating the incident with the help of third-party cybersecurity experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlthough the investigation remains ongoing, Aflac Japan has determined that certain impacted files contain policy and coverage details, personal information, and bank account information.\u201d continues the report. \u201cAflac Japan has notified the Japan Financial Services Agency and other relevant authorities, and intends to provide appropriate notifications to individuals affected by this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company pointed out that the incident only impacted Japanese systems. The company said its U.S. systems were&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/194488\/data-breach\/hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers Steal Data of 4.38 Million Aflac Japan Customers https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/194488\/data-breach\/hackers-steal-data-of-4-38-million-aflac-japan-customers.html Publish Date: 2026-06-30 12:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-43.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24],"class_list":["post-284093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284095,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284093\/revisions\/284095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}