Hakko Corporation Data Breach

What happened

In March 2019, the Japanese solder-related business Hakko Corporation suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 10k customer records including email and physical addresses, phone numbers, names, usernames, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Hakko Corporation password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Hakko Corporation — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.