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Cyber-thieves target Sakura

Data stolen from bank's computers leaked to Tokyo mailing-list vendor

January 5, 1998: 8:10 a.m. ET

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Sakura Bank More related sites... TOKYO (Reuters) - Cyber-criminals rifled confidential computer records of a major Japanese bank and stole information on customers' names, telephone numbers, addresses and even birthdays, the bank said Monday. [INLINE] Sakura Bank Ltd. said data on up to 20,000 of its 15 million individual customers could have been stolen and that it had confirmed that files on at least 37 then were leaked to a mailing-list vendor in Tokyo.

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