Article 60Q3V Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident

Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident

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Justin McCurry in Tokyo
from World news | The Guardian on (#60Q3V)

Contractor said he lost the device - storing names, addresses, dates of birth and tax details of 460,000 people - after an alcohol-fuelled night out

A city in Japan has been forced to apologise after a contractor admitted he had lost a USB memory stick containing the personal data of almost half a million residents after an alcohol-fuelled night out.

Officials in Amagasaki, western Japan, said the man - an unnamed employee of a private contractor hired to oversee Covid-19 relief payments to local households - had taken the flash drive from the city's offices to transfer the data at a call centre in nearby Osaka.

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