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- Dec 17, 2019
The company released a statement appologising about the data leak and implied it might not be her by using vague language.Narukami Sabaki is producing a video on the subject and said as much on Line. Of course the super stars of 5ch checked his IP as well and discovered he posts in the 5ch vtuber threads pretty often.
Official statement:
Translated (using DeepL):
In the "note" service, there was a bug where the IP address of the article contributor could be seen in the source code of the article details page.
In addition, it is not possible to identify personal information from general IP addresses.
At present, we have fixed the problem and the site is now available.We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
For creators who have suffered damage such as defamation due to this glitch, note company will support you including legal action in cooperation with you.
Below is a report on the occurrence and future measures.
What is an IP address?
This is information about where you communicate on the Internet.Typically, IP addresses are shared by a region, building or organization with the same value.As such, it is not information that determines the behavior of a specific individual.For more information, please see below.
Occurrence
It was possible to check the IP address of the last time a note user logged in from the source code on the article details page.
In addition, the
It is not possible to obtain personal information such as a specific individual's address by IP address.
It is not possible to determine that a person's history of accessing other sites using their IP address is their own.
Target audience.
note users who have a note account and have posted at least two articles
History of the response
Friday, August 14
10:40 Target defect detected.
10:58 As a stopgap measure, access to all of note is blocked
11:56 Corrective action completed and restored
Modifications
The IP address has been modified so that it cannot be viewed from outside.
Measures to prevent the recurrence of this issue are currently under consideration and will be added as soon as they are determined.
If you have any questions about this issue, please send us the details using the following contact form.
Please use the following contact form: https://help.note.com/hc/ja/requests/new
Once again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and we will work hard to prevent this from happening again in the future.
For those of you who have read to the end, you can find out what's going on at note and employment opportunities on Twitter.
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Edit: Here's the deleted tweets where they @ Sio. What the fuck are they doing?


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