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Park24 to pay ¥3,000 to Times Car users hit by data breach

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Park24 has announced plans to provide a consolation payment of ¥3,000 in cash or gift cards to Times Car vehicle-sharing service users affected by a recent data breach.

The company has confirmed that about 6.62 million user accounts were compromised. Of those accounts, eligible for the payment will be about 1.46 million accounts from which images of identification documents, including driver’s licenses, were externally transferred.

Park24 said Friday that it will respond appropriately on a case-by-case basis if actual damage occurs. It added that the affected images were not immediately viewable because they were encrypted.

The total cost of the consolation payment is expected to be some ¥4.4 billion.…

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