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PC Leaks Data From Japanese Power Plant

Robert Lemos writes over on SecurityFocus:

In the second incident to hit Japan's energy industry in a year, a PC with file-sharing software is blamed for leaking sensitive infrastructure data to the Internet from an energy company's facility.

A firm hired to handle the physical security at Chubu Electric Power Co. apparently inadvertently leaked information on the operating procedures and the location of critical areas of a thermal power plant, after a PC with access to the information had a file-sharing program installed, according to an article in the Japan Times.

The incident is the second leak for Japan's energy industry in a year. Last June, a virus-infected computer at a nuclear power plant leaked about 40MB of sensitive documents to the Internet, according to reports.

posted by Fergie @ 5/16/2006 12:45:00 PM