“There hasn’t been anything that breached legal or
regulatory boundaries,” a spokesman for Line said. “We always put ourselves to
a standard were we want to be as transparent as possible.”
The reports come after Line this month became part of Z
Holdings, formerly Yahoo Japan, creating a US$30bil (RM123.54bil) domestic
Internet heavyweight to compete against local and US rivals.
Four engineers at a company in China that performs system
development for Line were allowed to access servers that contained the names,
phone numbers and e-mails of users, the Asahi newspaper said.
Messages themselves can only be read by the sender and
receiver as Line, like other messaging apps, encrypts message content end to
end.
Z Holdings is controlled by SoftBank Corp through holding
company A Holdings, which is jointly owned by SoftBank Corp and South Korea’s
Naver Corp, the former operator of Line.
Z Holdings announced the Line tie-up last year but was
delayed from October because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Shares of Z Holdings dipped 2% in morning trade to 605.5 yen
(RM22.86), compared with the Tokyo exchange’s TOPIX index which was flat. –
Reuters
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