Japanese nuclear data leak raises security concerns
This time it's not a disclosure of unauthorized access to personal privacy data, but rather unauthorized access to sensitive nuclear power plant information. Sheesh...
A Reuters newswire report on Yahoo! News:
Japanese officials scrambled on Thursday to contain the public relations fallout from reports that confidential information about Japan's nuclear plants had leaked onto the Internet through a virus on a personal computer.
Japan's top government spokesman pledged to take steps to protect information after data on several nuclear plants appeared online, including photographs of their interiors, details of regular inspections and repair work and names of workers.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said the information was leaked through a personal computer used by an employee of a Mitsubishi subsidiary that was in charge of inspecting the plants.
Mitsubishi Electric said the leak occurred at one of its subsidiaries and included information from seven Japanese electric power companies and five independent firms.
posted by Fergie @ 6/23/2005 06:17:00 AM
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