Kanagawa Prefectural Government Judgment with grace in hard disk leak case June 9 11:35
A former employee of a data erasure company who was accused of theft in a case where a large amount of personal information was leaked when a hard disk such as the Kanagawa prefectural government was put up for sale on an online auction, the Tokyo District Court was imprisoned for 2 years, and the suspended sentence was 5 years. I handed over.
Yuichi Takahashi (51), a former employee of "Blow Drink" in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, who undertakes data erasure and disposal of hard disks, has 51 hard disks, including 18 hard disks from Kanagawa Prefectural Office, from the company's office from the adult to last year. I was accused of stealing.
In a judgment on the 9th, Shinobu Shinagawa, a judge of the Tokyo District Court, said, “It is extremely malicious to take out multiple times while recognizing that privacy and trade secret information may be stored. Internal information leaked, Kanagawa Prefectural Government Of course, criminal liability is considerably heavy, such as giving a great deal of anxiety to the companies that requested the data deletion."
On the other hand, he sentenced him to two years in prison and five years from the probation sentence, saying that he "paid over 19 million yen charged by the company he worked for and showed an attitude of reflection."