Pension system data leak shames Abe
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Japan’s pension system has been hacked and more than a million cases of personal data leaked, authorities said yesterday, in an embarrassment that revived memories of a scandal that helped topple Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his first term in office.
Japan Pension Service staff computers were improperly accessed by an external email virus, leading to the leak of some 1.25 million cases of personal data, the system’s president, Toichiro Mizushima, told a hastily called news conference.
He apologized for the leak, which he said involved combinations of names, identification numbers, birth dates and addresses. The pension service was setting up a team to investigate the cause and prevent a recurrence, Mizushima said.
“These are the people’s vital pensions. I have instructed Health and Welfare Minister (Yasuhisa) Shiozaki to consider the pension recipients and do everything possible,” Abe told reporters in brief remarks aired on NHK public television, which featured the data leak as the evening’s top news story.
Public outrage over botched record-keeping that left millions of pension premium payments unaccounted for was a major factor in a devastating defeat suffered by Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in a 2007 election for parliament’s upper house.
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