Hard disk with personal information such as tax payment Disposer to auction on December 6 at 11:36
The hard disk of Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office, which contains a large amount of personal information related to tax payment, etc. was exhibited at an Internet auction by the person in charge of the disposal contractor, and it turned out that it was leaked outside.
According to Kanagawa Prefecture, the leaked out were nine hard disks with a combined capacity of 27 terabytes, and administrative documents containing a large amount of personal information such as tax payment notices with the names of individuals and companies were accumulated. about it.
These hard disks were borrowed from the leasing company by the prefecture and used as a shared server for storing information on each department in the prefectural office. The data was initialized for replacement and returned in April.
The leasing company had instructed the contractor “Blow Drink” in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, which deals with the destruction and reproduction of information equipment, to destroy the hard disk and discard it so that the data cannot be restored. This means that the hard disk was taken out without processing, and was exhibited on the Internet auction site.
When the successful bidder confirmed with the restoration software, most of the files were broken, but a file containing personal information about tax payment was found.
According to the prefecture, the prefecture is rushing to recover because there were 9 other hard disks on the Internet auction.