The government plans to increase the number and scale of exercises aimed at countering cyberattacks during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, government sources said Saturday. The drills, held about six times a year and involving ministry and agency officials, will be increased to at least ...
The computer virus used to compromise the Japan Pension Service last year is similar to one that breached three other Japanese organizations, sources say.
The Japan Pension Service mistakenly underpaid and overpaid about 400 pensioners as a result of measures taken after a cyberattack that resulted in a massive leak of personal data, it was learned. According to the agency, the 400 belonged to the 960,000 pensioners whose ...
Structural deficiencies and lack of awareness about cyberattacks made the Japan Pension Service an easy target for hackers.
The report on the data leaks at the Japan Pension Service (JPS), released Thursday by its internal body, has revealed that a culture where no one takes responsibility existed in the Social Insurance Agency, the JPS’s predecessor, and continued at the refurbished entity. Prime ...
In the wake of massive personal data leaks from the Japan Pension Service, the government Thursday adopted a revised draft of a new cybersecurity strategy that calls for monitoring government-affiliated institutions against cyberattacks. The revised version, adopted at a meeting of the Cybersecurity Strategy ...
The Japan Pension Service must offer a clear explanation on how it failed to prevent the hacking of its computer system, which resulted in a massive leak of personal data.
The Japan Pension Service, which is reeling from the theft of a massive amount of personal data, has discovered two of its personal computers continued to transmit data outside the organization for three days after it contacted police about a possible security breach, sources ...
None of the email addresses had been disclosed to the public, and there is a chance they were obtained by hackers who had previously attacked the organization's computer network.
Investigators said some of the stolen data was found on a server at a Tokyo shipping firm, and that the attack was likely routed through its server without the company knowing.
Metropolitan Police Department said they confirmed two cases of suspicious calls made to elderly women in Tokyo Tuesday predending to be an official of the Japan Pension Service, according to media reports. Police warned of possible fraud in relation to the 1.25 million cases ...
The massive leak last month of personal data from the Japan Pension Service was the result of a simple error by its employees: opening a virus-laced email attachment disguised as a health ministry document. Hackers who tapped into the pension system and stole the ...
