Two hundred and ninety-four thousand was a line

Two hundred and ninety-four thousand is a line count. The ID number is in it.

Docomo’s 6 November letter — the third, and the evening presser — puts the take at up to 294,839 lines. Personal 204,157. Corporate 90,682. Leavers can still be in it. On every row: name, date of birth, age, address, contact phone, email, the number on the identity document they used to open the line, the mobile number, the start date, the plan, the options, the discount. On some rows: a legal or procedural agent, a workplace or company name and seat, a bank name, branch, account number and name, the childcare programme. Cards, they say, were stored masked and did not leave as a PAN. My Number is not held, image or number. They say nothing that would be a communications-secrecy file left.

The alert was 4 November, 10:30. They blocked overseas addresses. That did not hold. They took My docomo down, named a path, brought it back at 20:32, then saw another path. Shop and My docomo went down again at 01:05 on the 5th. Leak confirmed 02:10. They say the two-factor on the d-account worked, and that this was not a bug in one box but linked systems searched and pulled. ahamo’s new-contract page, they say, was not hit; they parked it anyway at 18:00 today. Restart is not dated. SMS went to the personal lines today. Consolation money is being discussed, not priced.

What 294,839 will be asked to cover

It will be briefed as every Docomo subscriber, and as every My Number in Japan. It is 294,839 lines, not the whole book. The ID-document number is the worse field. The bank is only some rows. Do not add JNSA’s 15,128, or SMBC Consumer Finance’s 320,118 from yesterday’s guarantee file. Different shops.

If you got their SMS, the name, the street and the document number are exposed. A mail that already knows the plan and asks for the rest of the My Number is not them. They will not ask for a card.

Two hundred and ninety-four thousand is a line. Keep the word network out of the sentence.