What do Japanese companies pay data breach victims?

Yahoo! BB and Benesse sent ¥500 vouchers. Park24 is paying ¥3,000 to 1.46M Times Car customers whose license images were sent out, and a planned group suit with 100,000+ registrants seeks ¥30,000-50,000. GMO now pays ¥10,000-25,000 per category of data attackers publish.

Courts have awarded ¥1,000-6,000 for basic details, ¥35,000 for sensitive data.

https://japancyberwatch.com/articles/japan-data-breach-compensation-payments-2026

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