In Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture, the USB memory containing the personal information of all citizens was temporarily lost, and the city set up an investigation committee to investigate the cause and examine measures to prevent recurrence, and the first meeting was held on the 4th. It was opened.
In Amagasaki City, on the 21st of last month, employees of the IT service company "BIPROGY", which had been outsourced for benefits, re-entrusted a USB memory containing the personal information of more than 460,000 citizens. I lost it for a while.
Problems such as employees taking out personal information without the permission of the city and the IT service company subcontracting part of the business to another company were discovered one after another, and the city investigated the cause. An investigation committee was set up to consider measures to prevent recurrence, and the first meeting was held privately on the 4th.
There were three members, including a lawyer and an information security expert, and on the 4th, the items and schedule of the investigation were discussed.
Associate Professor Takashi Kobayashi of the Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University, who was elected as the chairman, responded to the interview after the meeting. First of all, I would like to proceed with clarifying the facts with a sense of speed. "