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Health insurer Aflac blames US partner for leak of Japanese cancer policy info

Global insurer Aflac's Japanese branch has revealed that personal data describing more than three million customers of its cancer insurance product has been leaked online.[PDF in Japanese] to customers and admitted that their surname, age, gender, and insurance cover were all leaked.

The insurer claims that's not enough information to identify individual customers, and rates the likelihood of misuse as"extremely low". The breach is nonetheless notable because Aflac has blamed it on a US-based contractor to which it outsources some work. Aflac's apology states the contractor's servers were accessed from January 7.has not been able to find reports of similar breaches or leaks.has also visited a prominent forum that lists stolen data and offers it for sale, and found a sample of data from Aflac.

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