Japanese Prefecture Loses Residents’ Personal Data Due to Wind
The Aichi Prefecture government has issued an official apology to the entire population for mishandling the personal data of 121 households. The incident occurred on April 19 and involved resident data.
But if you think that this data leaked because of a dismissed public employee or an elaborate hacker attack, you’re mistaken. In reality, the population’s data was stolen by the wind.
Japanese Prefecture Loses Residents’ Personal Data Due to Wind
As part of the government’s regular housing program administration, people’s data needs to be transferred from an office to the Aichi government’s capital building, located in Nagoya. The data was stored physically.
The data of people that needed to be transferred were on 1,696 sheets of paper inside a cardboard box. As if that wasn’t enough, the transportation method for this cardboard box was a wheelbarrow, which a person was pulling on the street, and here’s the detail: on a day with very strong winds.
It sounds like a comedy movie script, but it’s exactly what happened. While the employee was transporting the more than 1,000 sheets of paper in a cardboard box in a wheelbarrow on a very windy day, he ended up letting the wheelbarrow tip over, and the box opened…
The wind did its job, and the papers started flying. The employee then tried to recover as much as he could, but it wasn’t enough. A search was then conducted to find all 1,696 papers.
The searches lasted for 2 days, and they couldn’t find all the papers. The Aichi Prefecture then contacted the population to inform them about the “leaked” data, and what was on these papers?
People’s names and how much they paid for rent. So far, the prefecture hasn’t identified any misuse of people’s data, but they stated that they will switch to digital records now, which will allow them to transfer the data without worrying about the wind.
via Soranews
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