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The Kumamoto Prefecture Anti-Violence Movement Promotion Center promises free and confidential counselling services to people who are associated with (or threatened by) yakuzas, Japan’s gangster organizations.

As the counselling center recently announced on its website, one of its employees fell victim to a tech support scam in mid-November and gave the attackers remote access to his computer. The employee promptly realized his mistake and immediately cut the power and network supply to his system. “But we cannot rule out the possibility that personal data has been leaked,” admit those responsible, warning people who may be affected not to respond to contact requests by email or telephone that supposedly come from employees of the organization.