Anime figurine maker exposes North American customer names, home addresses

The Cybernews research team has discovered that Good Smile Company, a Japanese hobby products maker best known for anime and gaming figurines, misconfigured an Amazon web services (AWS) simple storage service (S3) bucket, exposing a whopping 1.2 million files.

Key findings:

  • The exposed data hides the personally identifiable information (PII) of over 270,000 Good Smile Company customers.
  • Only a fraction of the exposed files, 156 CSV (comma-separated values) files, and 1058 XLSX files, contain sensitive information.
  • Most of the customers who had their details revealed reside in the US and Canada. 
  • The data has been exposed since at least April 2024, when the team first discovered the open instance. 

The exposed customer details include:

  • Full names
  • Email addresses
  • Nicknames
  • Home addresses
  • Order details (order date, type of purchase, payment method, and amount)
  • IP addresses

Multiple attempts to reach out to the Good Smile Company didn’t result in a response. And the instance was still open at the time of writing.

Dangers of the leak

Leaving chunks of PII belonging to a group of people with specialized interests invites attackers to use the situation to their advantage.

For the full research, please visit: https://cybernews.com/security/good-smile-company-leaks-customer-data/

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