A police officer in Aichi Prefecture is suspected of leaking information on last year's massive gold bar theft in Fukuoka to a suspect before 10 people were recently arrested in connection with the case, investigative sources said Friday. The 10 were arrested in May over ...
Hundreds of photos and videos of naked women used as collateral for loans on a Chinese online lending service have leaked onto the web, highlighting regulatory problems in the fast-growing peer-to-peer marketplace. A 10-gigabyte file posted on the internet exposed the personal details of more ...
There were 83 instances of leaks of personal information and the mistaken disposal of personal data under the My Number national identification system launched last autumn in Japan, the first annual report by an independent supervisory body to protect personal information showed Tuesday. Those problems ...
Large amounts of information on customers of Benesse Corp., the nation's largest provider of correspondence education for children, may have been leaked from a database management subcontractor of an affiliate, sources said Friday. Someone with ties to a subcontractor authorized to access Benesse's customer database ...
Illustrating the corporate hunger for "big data," software maker Justsystems is accused of illegally acquiring customer information from language education firm Benesse to send direct mail.
The state and Tepco should take more steps to mitigate the radioactive water accumulating at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, including paving the land to block rainwater from seeping into the ground, a report says.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it has found water leaks around the bottom of the containment vessel in the reactor 1 building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the first time leaks have been detected near or possibly in any of the three ...
A former tax division chief in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, may have been the person who leaked personal information on a local housewife that enabled a stalker to track her to her home and murder her last November, police sources said Friday. A key focus in ...
Three years after someone leaked documents on its counterterrorism investigations onto the Internet, Tokyo police have reached a dead end in their efforts to find the culprit while some Muslim residents who served as informants continue to live in fear with their identities exposed. With ...
A former employee of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office was sentenced to a suspended one-year prison term Friday for leaking sensitive investigative information to yakuza. Miho Suzuki, 30, was found guilty by the Shizuoka District Court of violating the law that prohibits public servants ...
The density of radioactive tritium in samples of seawater from near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant doubled over 10 days to hit a record 1,100 becquerels per liter, possibly indicating contaminated groundwater is seeping into the Pacific Ocean.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has seen a rise in the level of radioactive tritium in seawater within the harbor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A sample collected Friday contained around 1,100 becquerels of tritium per liter, the highest level detected in ...
