Data outflow in Kanagawa Prefecture Discretionary company employees who were contracted for disposal The Metropolitan Police Department Dec. 6, 20:49
An issue where 18 hard disks of Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office, which contained a large amount of personal information, were listed on the Internet auction by employees in charge of companies that were contracted to erase and discard data. It was found through interviews with investigators that he was listening to the situation at his discretion.
The problem was that an employee in charge of “Blow Drink” in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, who was responsible for erasing and disposing of the hard disk data used at the Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office, brought out 18 hard disks without processing it. It was exhibited at the auction site.
According to Kanagawa Prefecture, the 18 outflows confirmed have a capacity of 3 terabytes, and administrative documents containing a large amount of personal information such as tax payment notices with the names of individuals and companies are accumulated. That there was something.
All of them have already been sold, and 9 of them have not been collected yet.
It means that 5-6 other hard disks have been found in the bag of the employee in charge.
In this matter, we learned from interviews with investigators that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is listening to the situation at will on the suspicion that the employee in charge stole the hard disk from the workplace.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the actual situation and details of large-scale spills.