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Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.

  1. Cybertrust Japan decides to resume certificate issuance under a new scheme, flags near-term hit

    Cybertrust Japan halted SSL/TLS server certificate issuance on September 15 and decided on November 2 to restart under a new scheme, warning that the effect on results could appear in the short term.

  2. Ymirlink cuts Cuenote FC leak count to 47.86mn records, final forensic report still pending

    Ymirlink says 47,864,147 delivery-target records leaked from 49 Cuenote FC systems, below its earlier maximum estimate of about 51.62mn, with the final forensic report pending and the earnings impact still under assessment.

  3. Papyless puts Renta outage at ¥2.4bn of lost sales and ¥500mn of lost profit

    Papyless estimates the Renta e-book store suspension will cut sales by about ¥2.4bn and operating and ordinary profit by about ¥500mn each, and plans a phased restart without giving a date.

  4. Mercari restates four years of pay ratios, putting women's pay at 69.13% of men's in the latest year

    Mercari's amended annual reports restate its statutory measure as women's average wage as a percentage of men's, lifting the latest all-worker figure from 29.26% to 69.13% and revising three earlier years the same way.

  5. Furusato Choice app donations set to restart at 15:00 as Choice Pay stays shut

    Trust Bank said app donations would restart at 15:00 on November 9, which would put web and app both back in service, while Choice Pay stays suspended with no date after a breach of 4,454,097 member records.

  6. Furusato Choice reopens web donations on Nov 6 after 4.45mn-record breach

    Trustbank will take Furusato Choice web donations again from noon on November 6, but the app and Choice Pay remain suspended, five donors had additional data exposed, and the earnings effect on CHANGE Holdings is still under review.

  7. Paycloud's Arara breach grows to about 77 million email addresses as service stays shut

    Paycloud Holdings says up to about 380 client companies of its Arara mail service lost email addresses and member data, about 77 million addresses on a provisional count, and the service is suspended with no restart date.

  8. FreeBit restates net profit lower and rates its financial controls ineffective

    FreeBit's restated half-year net profit is 3.8% lower even though operating profit rose, and its internal control report says the board and auditors did not adequately examine deals involving its founder-president.

  9. Furusato Choice restarts its partner-site link, but donor-facing services stay shut

    Trust Bank is restarting the system linking Furusato Choice to partner sites from October 28, but donations will reopen partner by partner and the donor-facing site stays suspended, while CHANGE Holdings is still assessing the effect on consolidated results for the year to March 2027.

  10. GMO Internet will pay up to ¥3mn per data release and its parent adds a $1mn bounty

    Customers whose data an apparent attacker published will receive ¥10,000 to ¥25,000 per category, capped at ¥3mn per release, while parent GMO Internet Group funds a bounty of up to $1mn; the total cost cannot yet be calculated.

  11. giftee Group expects ¥550mn loss after hackers issued e-gifts

    giftee Group expects a roughly ¥550mn extraordinary loss after a third party exploited a vulnerability to issue e-gifts illegitimately, with no customer asset loss or personal data leak confirmed so far.

  12. FreeBit to recoup ¥493mn CountUp price after patent-valuation error

    FreeBit expects ¥492,999,999 back from its former president, plus a ¥117.6mn settlement, after a patent-ownership premise behind the CountUp valuation proved wrong; an earnout of up to ¥430mn will not be paid.

  13. ACCESS stays on TSE special caution list after exchange finds controls not properly operating

    The Tokyo Stock Exchange kept ACCESS under special caution, citing weak receivables controls at an overseas network subsidiary and gaps in related-party approvals; the company says it will publish concrete measures around the end of November.

  14. Ymirlink says data left 49 email systems, and the record count may rise

    Ymirlink says data was output from 49 Cuenote FC systems, a cumulative 51,628,280 records, and the figure may grow because 16 systems are still being investigated; unsolicited emails impersonating third parties from its domain have also been confirmed.

  15. Furusato Choice restarts its back-office system, but donations stay shut

    Trustbank has restarted the donation management system used by municipalities and gift suppliers, but Furusato Choice donations remain suspended after a leak of 4,454,097 records, and CHANGE Holdings is still assessing the impact on its results.

  16. Furusato Choice breach widens for five donors, with card details accessed for two

    CHANGE Holdings says five of the 4,454,097 affected Furusato Choice members lost more data than first disclosed, including card details for two, while the total count is unchanged and the effect on earnings is still being assessed.

  17. Paycloud says hackers took 1.42mn Value Card records, with no actual losses reported

    A web server flaw at Paycloud subsidiary Value Design let a third party take IDs, PINs and balances on 1,424,748 Value Card records, 569,224 of them issued IDs; the company reports no actual damage from misuse and no personal data exposed.

  18. Cybertrust Japan clears Google review for new intermediate CA, awaits Apple

    Google approved Cybertrust Japan's new intermediate CA on 20 October, but Apple's review is pending; the company plans to restart certificate issuance at the earliest two business days after Apple signs off, offering a Secom Trust Systems product meanwhile.

  19. Capcom ID breach exposes 11.77mn accounts, with 196 passwords changed by intruders

    Capcom says email addresses and system identifiers for 11,774,247 CAPCOM ID accounts leaked and 196 had passwords changed without authorization, while it has confirmed no leak of customer-set passwords and warns of impersonation emails.

  20. Digital Arts finds intruder traces dating to July 2025 in cloud operations, asks all cloud users to change passwords

    Digital Arts says stolen operating credentials gave a third party access to its cloud environment, with traces dating to around July 2025; as of noon on October 21 it had not confirmed data exfiltration, and it asks users of six cloud services to change passwords.

  21. Ymirlink says intruders pulled about nine million records from five email-service systems

    Ymirlink estimates that about 9 million cumulative records, including email addresses, were extracted from five systems behind its email delivery service, with the count of affected people and any earnings impact still unreported.

  22. TradeWorks says a setup flaw exposed up to 4,611 Iwai Cosmo customers' data

    TradeWorks says it will bear all costs after a misconfigured admin function in the trading system it supplies to Iwai Cosmo Securities may have exposed names and email addresses of 4,611 customers, and it is checking its other financial-institution clients.

  23. Medley suspends @link healthcare platform after confirmed intrusion

    Medley suspended its @link medical-institution system and patient app on October 14 after confirming unauthorized access; patient data may have leaked from as many as 787 institutions, and no restart date has been given.

  24. FIXER flags going-concern doubt after a ¥2.302bn net loss

    After a ¥2.302bn net loss and a ¥2.239bn operating cash outflow, FIXER says a material uncertainty over its going-concern basis remains, with a ¥1.547bn cost cut under way and financing talks still unsettled.