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Yet Another Japanese Data Breach Due to p2p File-Sharing - UPDATE

Via Mainichi Daily News.

Chiba Bank admitted on Thursday that customers' personal information, such as the amount of their savings, was leaked through the Winny file-sharing software that was installed on an employee's personal computer.

The employee of Chiba Bank installed the Winny software sometime around 2003. Customer information, including savings and loan details for individual and corporate customers was leaked through his computer at home.

More here.

(Props, Pogo Was Right.)

Note: There have been several data breaches in Japan over the course of the past few years involved the Winny file-sharing software, including breaches at several airports and a power plant.

UPDATE: 10:46 PST: And yet another breach in Japan involving Winny: "Information on 500 people posted to web in latest police security leak".

posted by Fergie @ 2/24/2007 10:05:00 AM