Personal Information Leaked from The Asahi Shimbun: Data on 170 Part-Time Workers Exposed via Winny
On the 25th, The Asahi Shimbun Company announced that the personal information of approximately 170 university students hired as part-time workers during the Tokyo tournament of the National High School Baseball Championship, which the company organizes, had been leaked onto the Internet through the Winny file-sharing software.According to the company, the leaked information included the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of students who had worked as scorekeepers and in other roles during the summer high school baseball tournaments from 2003 to 05. It said that no harm, such as misuse of the information, had been confirmed to date.
A male university student who was coordinating the part-time workers at the time took home documents containing the personal information of the other student workers and worked on them using his home computer. Winny was installed on that computer, and the company says the information was most likely leaked when it connected to the Internet.
The Asahi Shimbun issued a statement saying, “We intend to enforce rigorous information management to prevent anything like this from happening again.” (21:09)
Winny, yet again.
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