In response to an issue in which an employee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare registered the wrong address on the ministry's mailing list, and erroneously sent Prime Minister Kishida's Diet response draft and the personal information of hundreds of private and government employees, etc. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to prohibit the use of private email addresses for business purposes as a measure to prevent recurrence.
This problem occurred when an employee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Elderly Health Bureau added a private address to the ministry's mailing list as an emergency contact on holidays, but the wrong address was registered. The mailing list has been in operation for approximately four months, from February to last month.
As a result, in addition to Prime Minister Kishida's Diet response draft and internal documents before publication, the personal information of 675 people, including the names, mobile numbers, and email addresses of private and government employees, was leaked through an erroneously sent email. Did.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has sent an apology and a request to delete the email to the incorrect email address, but they have not yet received a response, but so far no damage has been confirmed such as the information being misused. That means no.
Previously, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare had been conducting business communications on holidays and other occasions using private addresses registered with prior permission. , it has been decided that it is prohibited to use private email addresses for business purposes.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, ``We would like to apologize to everyone involved for causing personal information to be leaked to a third party.We will work on measures to prevent it from happening again.''