SoftBank: former employee arrested for taking internal documents out of the company

On 2020-01-25 the Tokyo police arrested the former employee on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, and SoftBank issued a statement that day. NHK and others reported suspicions that information taken from company servers was handed to staff of the Russian trade mission in Japan. [1] [2]

SoftBank said the documents were of low confidentiality and held no customer personal data, communications secrets or partner information, which the former employee could not access. It found no outside intrusion or malware. [1] [3]