Developed by Japan’s largest gas utility, ‘Furo Koi’ was created to offer bathing advice to users
Around 10,000 email addresses belonging to players of an online, anime-style game were exposed during a data breach, according to Tokyo Gas, the game’s developer and Japanese utility giant.
In a security alert (PDF) published on January 30, Tokyo Gas said it had temporarily disabled the dating simulation game’s website and mobile app after discovering that a third party had gained unauthorized access to the emails and associated accounts’ nicknames.
Bath butler
Translated as ‘Furo Koi: My Only Bath Butler’, the application is described by Tokyo Gas as a ‘romance’ game – a Japanese roleplaying genre where players build relationships with other characters, predominantly through dialog.
The Japanese-language security alert seems to indicate that the game assesses the comparative effectiveness of various bathing products, while a video posted to the game’s Twitter account shows various anime avatars.
More than 10,000 users were impacted by the Furo Koi data breach, Tokyo Gas admitted
Tokyo Gas – founded in 1885 and Japan’s largest natural gas provider – said a total of 10,365 emails were exposed when the incident occurred on January 29.
A spokesperson for the company told The Daily Swig that the breach came to light the following day, on January 30.
They said it was unclear whether the stolen ..
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