Personal data is vital, especially when they are commercial. A Japanese contractor made a mistake he couldn’t explain to any customer when he had too much to drink. The contractor, who keeps the data of all the citizens of the city on a single USB stick, couldn’t rule and the data of the people in the whole city disappeared along with the USB stick. Interesting event in Japan. in hundreds of thousands of citizens caused panic.
Drunk contractor creates citywide data scandal
A contractor working in Amagasaki, Japan, with a population of 465,000, kept the data of the people in the entire city in his flash memory. The Japanese contractor, who found himself in a street near the venue after getting drunk one night, not in your bag He soon realized. After getting over the shock of the incident, the contractor, who went to the police, stated to the police that he lost the data of the entire city.
Although the data on the contractor’s USB memory is found by other authorities, the problem is not that this data is lost. The main problem is that this memory contains the personal data of all the people in the city. The loss of this memory, which includes name, date of birth, settlement date, gender and address, poses a major privacy problem. Also, citizens Tax information of around 360 thousand was also in this memory.
The most tragic part of the incident was that the contractor had the necessary authority to process this data outside the municipality. This means that anyone who finds the USB stick can access the information of all citizens of the city. Fortunately, there was an encryption system in memory, but the citizens who heard the news trusted this system and pretended nothing had happened. didn’t want.
To the lines in the city in a short time Around 30,000 fake calls was reported to have arrived, and the police took action to notify all citizens against fake calls and blackmail. There are only days between when an employee gets drunk and this whole thing unfolds. Although the contractor and the mayor of the city have issued a text of apology, these do not seem sufficient at the moment.