Ehime man gets eight years for online banking scheme but not guilty of using neighbor's Wi-Fi
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a man to eight years in prison Thursday for illegally obtaining the internet banking passwords and account details of other people and using the information to illegally remit money, but was found not guilty of "free riding" his neighbor's ...
Chinese learning the value of privacy
If China's biggest online players want to chart a bigger role for themselve at home and abroad, they're going to need to start taking privacy much more seriously.
The Benesse group on Wednesday outlined its new data security setup, which the company says will bolster customer information protection after it was embroiled in Japan's biggest-ever data theft. Benesse Holdings Inc. and its group company Benesse Corp. said they will send a ¥500 cash ...
The computer engineer at the center of the big data scandal at Benesse Corp. was served a fresh arrest warrant Monday on suspicion of stealing data on about 20 million of its customers, Tokyo police said. Masaomi Matsuzaki, 39, who was hired as a systems ...
Swindlers may be trying to take advantage of data leak fears raised by the theft from Benesse Corp. of data on millions of customers, the National Consumer Affairs Center warned on Tuesday. The consumer advocacy group is advising caution against suspicious telephone calls that may ...
Benesse theft traced to temp worker ID at database managing firm
Customer information apparently stolen from a group company of Benesse Holdings Inc., Japan's largest provider of correspondence education for children, was taken using the ID of a contractor, company sources said. Records showed that the information was downloaded by a systems engineer who was working ...
