Former employee of Kanagawa Prefectural Office HDD leaked re-arrested "Data erased at home" January 22 17:55
In a case where a hard disk of Kanagawa prefectural government office containing a large amount of personal information was exhibited at an online auction and leaked, former employees of the data erasure company stole and concentrated the prefectural office stuff for the last three months last year. I erased it, "she said in an interview with the company and the Metropolitan Police Department. The Metropolitan Police Department is examining it as if you had erased it so that you did not notice it was stolen.
Yuichi Takahashi (51), a former employee of the data erasure company "Blow Link" in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, suspected of stealing a total of 24 devices, including 18 hard disks from the Kanagawa Prefectural Office, from the data erasure room in the office. I was re-arrested a day.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Office's discs contained documents containing a large amount of personal information, such as tax payment notices stating the names of individuals and companies, and were subsequently exhibited on auction sites.
In a subsequent investigation, Takahashi revealed in an interview with investigators that 18 of the Kanagawa Prefectural Office had been intensively stealing during the three months from July to September last year.
Earlier in the morning before other employees came to work, the hard disk stored in the data erasing room was put in a rucksack and taken out, explaining that an internal survey explained that `` the data in the disk was erased at home '' is. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that it had erased the data on its own so that it did not notice that it had been stolen.
Data erasure company "Every effort to prevent recurrence"
"We are sorry that the former employee was arrested again, and we will do our best to prevent it from happening again," said Blow Drink, a data erasure company in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Commenting.