SEGA says 2,196,044 newsletter email addresses leaked

SEGA said on Monday that the email addresses of 2,196,044 customers were leaked after a third party accessed the systems of Arara, the company whose distribution system SEGA and Sega Fave use for email newsletters, according to animenewsnetwork.com.

SEGA said there were no indications as of the announcement that names, birthdates, genders, Postal addresses, phone Numbers, credit card information or login passwords had been leaked. Email addresses registered on SEGA Accounts are handled by a different distribution system and were not affected.

The leaked addresses came from 11 affected newsletters sent in July, September and October. Of those addresses, 92,273 also had information associated with newsletter delivery leaked.

Six of the 11 affected newsletters are tied to the SEGA Lucky Kuji Online prize game service, which is under maintenance for security checks. Arara is investigating the cause of the unauthorized access and taking measures to prevent further Damage, SEGA said.

The disclosure follows a separate incident at Sega Fave, which said on November 2 that a third party had accessed its servers without authorization, affecting the ALL.Net and Aime arcade game Network services. Sega Fave had suspended related services on November 1 for security checks, and some game services remain unavailable. Companies other than SEGA, including Bandai and Namco, use the affected Sega Fave services for certain arcade games.