The company’s ClassPad is a web-based educational application, and the hack compromised customer data including names, email addresses, country of residence, purchase information, payment methods, license codes, and service usage data. Fortunately, no sensitive credit card information was exposed because Casio does not store this data.
The security breach was revealed on October 11, when one of the company’s employees encountered a database failure. Casio attributes this to bugs in the development environment, resulting in some network security settings being accidentally disabled. The attack affected 91,921 Japanese customers, 1,108 education customers, and 35,049 customers from other countries.
The company said this data will be updated as new affected customers are identified.
Source: Ferra
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