Nikkei: a file with personal data of 3,763 webinar registrants was viewable on the internet for two weeks

1. 2023-05-11

   While the administrator of the streaming system was improving the system, the setting of a file that had been private was wrongly changed to public. [1] [2]

2. 2023-05-24

   It was found in an internet patrol by the people involved in the webinar, and it immediately blocked outside access to the file and deleted the file. [1] [2]

3. 2023-06-13

   It sent notices to the 3,763 people concerned and reported to the Personal Information Protection Commission. [1]

4. 2023-06-15

   It announced the case. [1] [2]

The data that was viewable was the names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates, annual incomes, financial asset amounts and more of the 3,763 people who applied for the asset succession and management webinar of August 19, 2022. For some applicants it also included bank account numbers. It was viewable for two weeks, from May 11 to 24, 2023. An investigation with a security firm confirmed that no outside third party accessed the file and that no information leaked. [1] [2]