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It was announced on the 6th that the email delivery service “Arara Message,” used by five of the six Pacific League teams’ official websites managed by Pacific League Marketing (PLM) — all except Orix — suffered unauthorized access, leaking a total of over 13,000 email addresses. SoftBank reportedly had 3,660 addresses leaked, while Lotte saw 11,875 email addresses leaked along with 37,070 registered nicknames. Rather than focusing on the scale of the leak, 5ch’s reaction centered on the question “why was Orix the only one unaffected?” Commenters pointed out that Orix simply never used Arara’s service in the first place, with some crediting this to the cautious nature typical of a finance-industry parent company, while others sarcastically suggested it was simply because Orix has so few registered fans.
Email Addresses Leaked from 5 Pacific League Teams Excluding Orix — Over 13,000 in Unauthorized Access Incident – Sankei News
2026/11/6 19:09
Pacific League Marketing (PLM), a joint venture funded by all six Pacific League professional baseball teams, announced on the 6th that an email delivery service used by five of the official team websites it manages — all teams except Orix — suffered unauthorized access, resulting in the external leak of users’ email addresses. The total exceeded 13,000, including 3,660 from SoftBank.
Source: sankei.com / Original article here
What people said
You know how when someone asks you to name all 6 teams in the Central or Pacific League, there's always that one team that just won't come to mind?
That was Orix.
They're a moneylending company, after all.
They probably spend real money on that stuff.
It'd be a trust issue otherwise.
No registered users means zero victims.
They're a telecom company — isn't that embarrassing?
All 6 teams use the same vendor, you know.
Put another way, the real mystery is why Orix (at least as far as we know right now) was the only one left out.
>The leak from the email delivery service (Arara Message) totals 13,711 addresses across the 5 teams. The leak from the Lotte site alone included 11,875 email addresses and 37,070 registered nicknames.
>Also note that Orix does not use Arara's service.
What a liar.
This just exposed how few pro baseball (Pacific League) fans actually bother signing up on the official team sites.
Only 13,000 total across 5 teams?? That's insanely few lol
Seriously lol
So few lol
The guy who stole the data was probably shocked at how few registrants there were.
And among those, Orix's numbers were so pathetically low he couldn't even be bothered stealing them.
It basically said: "Unlike the other Pacific League teams, we don't use Arara's email service, so we should be fine — but we're doing emergency maintenance just in case."
You mean like SoftBank, DeNA, or Rakuten?
So what does that tell you?
Didn't realize they even had a live-game-update newsletter. Sounds like an annoying amount of notifications.
Oh!
Only about 10,000 leaked across 5 teams, not just one? That's absurdly low, isn't it?
SoftBank: Personal information leaked via unauthorized access to a related service
SoftBank and VOLZ Inc. announced on the 6th that due to unauthorized access to Arara Inc.'s email delivery service "Arara Message," which VOLZ used, the email addresses of some customers using SoftBank's services had been leaked.
>> "Pacific League Marketing (PLM), the joint venture funded by the 6 Pacific League teams"
The official team sites managed by that company
Yeah, that's a different case.
Sounds made up, but it's actually true, huh…
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The leak originated from sites managed by PLM, the operating company jointly funded by the six Pacific League teams, with the actual email delivery work outsourced to an external service called “Arara Message” run by Arara Inc. The fact that only Orix escaped damage isn’t a matter of superior security measures — it simply comes down to a contractual difference, namely that Orix didn’t use this particular service. On the thread, speculation flew that “Orix is cautious because it’s finance-industry” or “they weren’t targeted because they have few fans,” but according to the teams’ own explanation, the real reason is just a difference in vendor selection, not a sign of heightened security awareness. It’s also worth noting, to avoid confusion, that the separately announced SoftBank/VOLZ unauthorized access incident reported the same day is a distinct case that merely happens to share the same Arara service.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Baseball] Email Addresses Leaked from 5 Pacific League Teams Excluding Orix — Over 13,000, Due to Unauthorized Access.”
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