August 9th, 2021 - 10:57 GMT
The past couple of years have witnessed a disturbing trend in data security in Japan — in a word, downwards. In December of 2020, Japanese online marketing giant Rakuten announced that data for nearly 1.5 million customers had been exposed to access from outside of Japan . LINE, one of the most popular messaging systems in Japan, is owned by a company in South Korea — a country increasingly hostile to Japan. Earlier in 2021, it was revealed that LINE had made Japanese users’ information available to technicians in the ...