Notice on the Guidance Regarding Our Internet Auction Service Received from the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan

LY Corporation today received guidance from the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan. Again, we sincerely apologize to our users and stakeholders for any concern or inconvenience this may have caused.

The guidance is on the defect announced on August 7, 2023* regarding the display of the internal identifiers of customers who had listed their items on Yahoo! JAPAN Auction (formerly YAHUOKU!, our internet auction service). These identifiers appeared in the HTML source codes of the product pages, etc., of the listed items. This defect has already been resolved and no secondary damage has been confirmed at this time. In addition, this has no relevance to the incident announced on November 27, 2023 in the “Notice and Apology Regarding Information Leakage Due to Unauthorized Access.”

We take this guidance seriously, endeavoring to reestablish the trust of all, and making every effort to ensure that our users and relevant parties can utilize our services with confidence and peace of mind.

* [Recovery Completed] Defect regarding the display of a seller’s internal identifier on product pages, etc.
https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/topic/notice/troubleRepo/post_3586/ (Japanese only)

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