Good Smile data breach and GMO investigation feature in Japan briefing

The morning roundup also covers household costs, Tokyo crime investigations and checks on Japanese passengers after Spain's train disaster.

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【朝ニュースライブ】最新ニュースと生活情報（10月30日） ──THE LATEST NEWS SUMMARY（日テレNEWS LIVE）

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1:02Unauthorized access to Good Smile Company's systems may have exposed customers' credit-card details.
5:24GMO says it has potentially identifying information; specialists explain how public online clues can support cybercrime investigations.
12:16An arrest brings an investigative update on the Ginza spray attack, including a bystander's account of sudden throat irritation.
19:28Cold-weather footage shows frost and morning mist as parts of Japan experience their coldest morning of the season.
25:02Workers bring homemade lunches to manage food costs as the report examines rising egg and chicken prices.
58:52Aeon introduces distribution-center robots intended to automate much of its shipping work.

Customer credit-card details may have been exposed after unauthorized access to Good Smile Company's systems, Japan's Nippon Television News reports in its October 30 morning roundup. The potentially affected information includes card numbers, cardholders' names and security codes.

Good Smile makes collectible figures, including the Nendoroid range. Its report appears alongside a separate cyberattack investigation involving GMO Internet Group, whose chairman says the company has obtained information that could help identify those responsible and plans to submit it to police.

The broadcast brings in cybersecurity specialists to explain the investigative work. Former National Police Agency cybercrime division chief Makoto Tanase notes that police also investigate publicly available online information. Another expert examines what the construction of a public website might reveal about its operators' technical abilities. Those observations are analysis, not confirmation of an attacker's identity.

Tokyo crime updates include an arrest in the May spray attack at the Ginza Six shopping complex, which the broadcaster says injured thirty people. A bystander describes suddenly coughing and feeling throat irritation despite noticing no smell. Separately, a reporter outside Nakano Broadway says a man posing as a customer fled a watch shop with an expensive watch still on his wrist, shortly before closing.

From Spain, the bulletin reports that two Japanese names appeared on the passenger list for the fatal high-speed train collision near Urda. Their status was being checked, and Japanese officials had established a local response headquarters. The broadcast carries successive death-toll updates and examines whether communications problems and an incorrect control instruction contributed to the collision; these remain questions under investigation.

Other urgent reports concern a Japanese woman killed in South Korea and a construction-site collapse in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture. The broadcaster reports one worker dead and rescue efforts continuing for another buried beneath soil.

The everyday-information portion turns to unusually cold mornings and the cost of lunch. Workers describe bringing carefully prepared bento boxes as eating out becomes more expensive, while the bulletin reports record prices for eggs and chicken thigh meat. It also outlines Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's plans to bring forward electricity and gas support while gradually reducing gasoline subsidies.

Later segments visit Donald Trump's committed supporters before the U.S. midterms, show the imperial autumn garden party and report on Aeon's introduction of robots intended to automate much of its distribution-center shipping work.

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