A Japanese city has been left with more than a headache after admitting a contractor lost a USB containing personal data on all of its 460,000 residents during a night on the town.It included tax and bank account information and other personal information of all the city's residentsA spokesperson for the western city of Amagasaki said on Thursday that a private contractor, whose name has not been disclosed, was carrying the memory stick during drinks after work.
But the man, who was working on a municipal pandemic relief programme, lost the bag containing the USB on Tuesday evening. "We deeply regret that we have profoundly harmed the public's trust in the administration of the city," the Amagasaki official told a press conference.It included the names, genders, addresses, birthdays and other personal information of all the city's residents, as well as tax data and bank account information on some locals, the spokesperson said.
But there may be a silver lining, as the city says the data was encrypted and the USB locked with a password.The loss has been reported to police, who are investigating.
It would only be a foreigner, the Japanese are fastidious, honest and stealing is unheard of. It was found and returned just as it would be in such a moral country.
Randy Pitchford at it again
Heard of one drive?
Reported found more than 24 hours ago
& Abc believe that crap?
On my way!
ausgov politas privacy invasionofprivacy australia deliberate thejoker usb
Look I am very sorry I thought I wasthrowngmy empty cigarettet packet out the train window. I came back to look a train ran over my foot Who do I sue.?
loose your documents a bus stop or use simplest password And don't forget to blame Russian or Chinese hackers, while US's NSA and Israel's Pegasus are doing their job
Wouldn't have happened if they were using m365
Can someone please tell me why he was even carrying that around with him?
In other breaking news, 460,000 Amagasaki people have woken up to a email saying they won a Nigerian online lottery. But cant get through as Microsoft is calling to say they need to fix their computer virus.
There is only one honourable solution.
Probs sold it... Who take a whole city's data away from work?
Lucky this wasn’t in China!
Geezus, you have to love human error! Billions of dollars down the drain and no data!
Can someone tell me why a public servant has non encrypted datasets of an entire city on a USB stick in 2022? The contemporary dodo bird
I always take a USB with me to the club, don’t you?
Need backup Dano
Oopsie
... and then told everyone how to crack the password protecting the data in a press conference.
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