Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal data of 500k people

[elsiegee40]

https://news.sky.com/story/japanese-city-worker-loses-usb-containing-personal-data-of-nearly-half-a-million-residents-12639762

[StevieM]

I think Miguel Pacheco from Drybrook, Gloucestershire needs to get himself over to Japan!

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/news/228413-iphone-still-working-after-10-months-river.html

[southhamster]

Isn't the relevant bit,

"

All of the information is encrypted and password protected, and there have been no reports of data leaks."

 

So hopefully not such a problem. If it's hardware encryption USB a lot of those will reset after 5 incorrect passwords anyway.

[PrimaryNetMan]

Yes but this is the other issue that schools don't ever really think about, how it looks and reputation. If this was a school all anyone will take away is that all their pupil data was saved to a flash drive and lost. Even the fact that the drive was encrypted was left until the end of the article.

[Andrew_C]

I wonder...

 

If this hadn't made such a splash in the press, the thief would have found the stick to be encrypted, and just binned it. Now that it is obviously so valuable, lots of high-level cyber-criminals will be interested in it. Possibly with the money to crack it.