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Proof: Japan and cybersecurity: What’s behind recent attacks and what’s being done?

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-08T09:10:41Z","headline":"Japan and cybersecurity: What’s behind recent attacks and what’s being done?","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"japantimes","url":"https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/10/08/tech/focus-japan-data-leak/","v":1}

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SHA-256

bbf4e2939cd6120f907da02a0a8c89033b8df92ab4d02a070d1e44880b8657c9

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970474, mined 2026-10-08 10:01 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-08 09:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 09:12 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-bbf4e2939cd6.json prints bbf4e2939cd6120f907da02a0a8c89033b8df92ab4d02a070d1e44880b8657c9. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-bbf4e2939cd6.json and headline-bbf4e2939cd6.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-bbf4e2939cd6.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.