Security News > 2023 > June > Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme

Fujitsu Japan is in the spotlight again for all the wrong reasons, after fumbling its attempt to fix the nation's troubled ID card scheme.

One use of the cards is to arrange for administrative documents to be printed at convenience stores or government offices.

Fujitsu yesterday admitted that on June 28 a local government authority issued a resident card - and the person who came to pick it up found it included details for another person.

That's embarrassing to Fujitsu because, on June 17, the services giant announced it had re-inspected the MCIJET application behind the remote printing facility and claimed it was complete.

Now the firm has admitted to "a failure in which data inconsistency occurred." It's asked all local government customers to stop using MICJET, so it can once again probe the cause of the problem and consider whether other aspects of its service need to be reviewed.

Little wonder Japan's recently established government digital agency decided to avoid working with local tech giants - among them Fujitsu - as it started its push towards government services hosted in and delivered from the cloud.

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