It was found that personal information such as the names of about 9,500 people infected with the new coronavirus compiled by Fukuoka Prefecture was accidentally leaked to one outside man.
On the 6th, Fukuoka Prefecture took measures to prevent this information from being viewed and held a press conference to apologize.
According to Fukuoka Prefecture, at the end of November last year, the prefecture mistakenly sent an e-mail with access privileges to an outside man regarding the infected person information file stored on the Internet.
This file was created by the prefecture to adjust the hospitalization destination of patients, and can be viewed from multiple terminals by related parties, such as the names, places of residence, ages, etc. of about 9,500 infected people so far. Personal information of was described.
The prefecture was contacted by the man who received the email on the same day and restricted access to the folder containing the file, but since it did not restrict the file itself, if you enter the URL of the file It means that it has been available for viewing from the outside for over a month.
On the 6th, the prefecture took measures to delete this file from the Internet so that it could not be viewed.
Yukio Iida, director of the Fukuoka Prefecture Health, Medical and Nursing Department, held a press conference on the 6th in response to the news of the leak, apologized that "I am very sorry for the leakage of personal information," and prevented recurrence. He expressed his intention to consider the measures as soon as possible.