Unauthorized Access Found on Iris Ohyama's Online Shopping Site
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Iris Ohyama is a company in Japan. It sells many products online.
The company has an online shop. The shop is called Iris Plaza.
Someone got unauthorized access to the Iris Plaza website. This means a person entered the website without permission.
The company found this problem. They stopped the website for now.
Iris Ohyama wants to check the website. They want to make it safe again.
The company has not given more details yet. People are waiting for more news.
This happened in Miyagi, Japan. Iris Ohyama is based there.
Online shopping sites must be safe. Customers give personal information to shop.
Many companies work hard to stop unauthorized access. It can hurt customers and businesses.
Vocabulary15 words
- unauthorized access
- when someone enters a computer system without permission
- online shopping site
- a website where people buy things
- temporarily
- for a short time, not forever
- customer
- a person who buys something
- personal information
- private facts about a person, like name or address
- company
- a business that sells things or services
- website
- a place on the internet with information or shopping
- safe
- not dangerous; protected
- problem
- something wrong that needs fixing
- details
- small pieces of information
- based
- having a main office in a place
- stopped
- made something not work for a while
- checking
- looking carefully at something
- news
- information about recent events
- permission
- allowing someone to do something
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1. It got unauthorized access 2. They stopped the website 3. Miyagi
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Iris Ohyama is a _____ in Japan. It sells many products online.
The company has an online shop. The shop is called Iris _____.
Someone got unauthorized _____ to the Iris Plaza website.
The company found this _____. They stopped the website for now.
Iris Ohyama wants to check the website. They want to make it _____ again.
This happened in _____, Japan. Iris Ohyama is based there.
Online shopping sites must be safe. Customers give personal _____ to shop.
Many companies work hard to stop unauthorized access. It can hurt customers and _____.
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