Security News > 2024 > March > NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak

NTT West president Masaaki Moribayashi announced his resignation on Thursday, effective at the end of March, in atonement for the leak of data pertaining to 9.28 million customers that came to light last October.

Often resignations are avoided if a leader simply offers up a chunk of their salary instead. On Thursday, NTT West apologized for the leak and released details of a related investigation.

A temporary employee dispatched to NTT Business Solutions Corporation stole the data and sold it to a third party, claimed NTT West.

The org had been previously tipped off to a potential leak in 2022 by a client.

Last month Japan's communication ministry concluded that NTT West had failed to oversee and manage customer data properly, and ordered the business to revise its contracts with employment agencies.

In the corporate equivalent of sackcloth and ashes penance, a statement promised: "In order to prevent a similar incident from occurring again, the NTT West Group will steadily implement preventive measures to strengthen information security and strive to restore the trust of everyone associated with the NTT West Group."

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