{"id":180200,"date":"2026-10-08T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=180200&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:32:34","slug":"mrmax-warns-of-possible-data-leak-affecting-over-1-7-million-members","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/mrmax-warns-of-possible-data-leak-affecting-over-1-7-million-members\/","title":{"rendered":"MrMax warns of possible data leak affecting over 1.7 million members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discount retailer MrMax says unauthorized access may have exposed data belonging to more than 1.73 million members. The breach affected servers used for its app and online store on the evening of Oct. 3. Potentially exposed information includes member IDs, names, email addresses and phone numbers. The company says passwords, home addresses, dates of birth and credit card details were not among the affected data. No misuse had been confirmed at the time of the report. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.web.nhk\/newsweb\/na\/nd-20261006de55195\" target=\"_blank\">NHK News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/1127408\" target=\"_blank\">TNC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fnn_mrmax-office_2026_WEB.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fnn_mrmax-office_2026_WEB.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fnn_mrmax-office_2026_WEB.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fnn_mrmax-office_2026_WEB.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fnn_mrmax-office_2026_WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: Fukuoka Now<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount retailer MrMax says unauthorized access may have exposed data belonging to more than 1.73 million members. The breach affected servers used for its app and online store on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":175537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-180200","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/180200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}