{"id":47272,"date":"2022-06-27T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/contractor-loses-entire-japanese-citys-personal-data-in-usb-fail\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:44:06","slug":"contractor-loses-entire-japanese-citys-personal-data-in-usb-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/contractor-loses-entire-japanese-citys-personal-data-in-usb-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor loses entire Japanese city’s personal data in USB fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

In brief<\/span> A Japanese contractor working in the city of Amagasaki, near Osaka, reportedly mislaid a USB drive containing personal data on the metropolis’s 460,000 residents.<\/p>\n

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Amagasaki lock in Amagasaki’s Nishinomiya Ashiya port<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The unidentified man, who was a contractor with the city working to disburse pandemic subsidies, placed the drive containing all the records into his bag, which he took with him on a night out on the town earlier this week. <\/p>\n

It’s unknown how good of a time the man had, but he did reportedly end up passing out in the street, Japanese news source NHK reported<\/a> the company who employed him as saying, elaborating on an incident report<\/a> from the Amagasaki city government. The company told the newspaper that, upon waking, the contractor found his bag was missing.<\/p>\n

The incident report states that the memory stick contained names, birth dates, addresses, tax details, banking information, and social security records \u2013 all of it very private and potentially harmful if stolen.<\/p>\n

Amagasaki officials said the data on the USB stick was encrypted, and offered apologies for harming the public’s trust in their administration.<\/p>\n