NTT Communications, a Japanese telecoms service provider, has experienced a significant data breach with unauthorized access detected on February 5th and again on February 15th. The breach has potentially compromised data related to nearly 18,000 corporate customers' mobile phone contracts, including customer names, contacts, phone numbers, email addresses, and information about service usage. This data leak poses a risk to the confidentiality of customer information and could have severe repercussions for those affected.
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/09/asia_tech_news_roundup/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/ntt-communications
"id": "ntt030031025",
"linkid": "ntt-communications",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "3/2025",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': '18,000',
'industry': 'Telecommunications',
'location': 'Japan',
'name': 'NTT Communications',
'type': 'Telecom Service Provider'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '18,000',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['customer names',
'contacts',
'phone numbers',
'email addresses',
'information about service '
'usage']},
'date_detected': ['2023-02-05', '2023-02-15'],
'description': 'NTT Communications, a Japanese telecoms service provider, has '
'experienced a significant data breach with unauthorized '
'access detected on February 5th and again on February 15th. '
'The breach has potentially compromised data related to nearly '
"18,000 corporate customers' mobile phone contracts, including "
'customer names, contacts, phone numbers, email addresses, and '
'information about service usage. This data leak poses a risk '
'to the confidentiality of customer information and could have '
'severe repercussions for those affected.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['customer names',
'contacts',
'phone numbers',
'email addresses',
'information about service usage']},
'title': 'NTT Communications Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}