Kanagawa Prefecture data outflow former employee "taken multiple times 3 years ago" December 7 18:24
A former employee of a data erasure company, who was arrested for stealing another disk due to a leak of a hard disk of Kanagawa prefectural government office that contained a large amount of personal information in an online auction, "has taken out several times since three years ago." It was found through interviews with investigative personnel that this statement was stated. The Metropolitan Police Department intends to proceed with elucidation as if it had been sold for a long time.
The problem was that 18 hard disks used in the Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office were taken from a data erasing company “Blow Drink” in Chuo-ku, Tokyo and exhibited on an auction site. The Metropolitan Police Department suspected Yuichi Takahashi, a former employee ( 50) was arrested on suspicion of stealing another 12 hard disks from the company.
Takahashi worked at an office in Ota-ku, Tokyo, where the data erasure room is located, but he stated that he had taken out the hard disk several times since March 2016. However, I learned from interviews with investigators. Suspect Takahashi has been working for this company since 2016.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Government also acknowledged the case, and some of them had accumulated administrative documents containing a large amount of personal information, such as tax payment notices with names of individuals and companies. That is.
The Metropolitan Police Department has decided to proceed with elucidation, assuming that it has been repeatedly sold for a long time from the beginning of work.