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The thread centers on a report that Toshiba’s U.S. subsidiary website was hacked, exposing customers’ email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords for 7,520 users (with no credit card data reportedly involved). The key issue raised is what data was actually compromised and whether financial information was affected, based on Toshiba’s statement. Overall sentiment is concern about account/security risk despite the reassurance about the absence of payment-card data.

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Toshiba announced this weekend that a web server run by its US sales subsidiary had been hacked, and the email addresses, telephone numbers and passwords of hundreds of customers had been compromised. The Japanese electronics firm said that the server was run by Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., and held personal data relating to 7,520 customers. Fortunately, according to the firm, the personal information exposed did not include any credit card data.
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