Security News > 2022 > June > Contractor loses entire Japanese city's personal data in USB fail

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.

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 the company who employed him as saying, elaborating on an incident report from the Amagasaki city government.

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CISA said the info it reported was derived from two related incidents.

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"Once into the admin panel, the amount of data I was allowed to was staggering," Eaton exclaimed.

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