A former temporary employee who was arrested in connection with the leak of customer information by a former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West told police that he had debts and was referring to a past customer information leak incident at a major educational information company. Interviews with investigators have revealed that he made statements such as "I did it to him."

The suspect, Masahiro Kageyama (63), who was a temporary employee at NTT Business Solutions, a subsidiary of NTT West Japan, downloaded file data containing customer information of a company in Okayama Prefecture from the company's server and copied it in January last year. , was arrested on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act for transmitting and leaking the information to a list vendor in Tokyo.



In response to a previous police investigation, he admitted the charges and stated that he did it because he was short of money, but added, ``I was asked to repay the debt all at once, and I was asked to pay off all my debts, and I was asked to pay off all my debts in a lump sum.'' Interviews with investigators have revealed that he made statements such as, ``I started leaking information to list companies based on the leaked incident.I sold it when I was having trouble making a living.''



Police believe that Kageyama illegally took approximately 9.28 million pieces of personal information owned by 69 local governments and companies, sold it to a list agency, and received more than 20 million yen, and are investigating the details. Masu.