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Daily Cyber News: VPN breach exposed 246,000 Japanese government personnel records

Government employees face increased impersonation and phishing risk after a V P N-related breach at Japan’s Digital Agency. Around two hundred forty six thousand record rows containing personal information may have been exposed after an attacker exploited a known, medium-severity V P N issue and accessed a maintenance and operations account. The investigation began when the agency detected large-scale file access on June 25th.

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