{"id":45748,"date":"2022-06-24T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/24\/japanese-city-worker-loses-usb-containing-personal-details-of-every-resident"},"modified":"2022-06-24T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:07:33","slug":"japanese-city-worker-loses-usb-containing-personal-details-of-every-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45748","title":{"rendered":"Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contractor said he lost the device \u2013 storing names, addresses, dates of birth and tax details of 460,000 people \u2013 after an alcohol-fuelled night out<\/p>\n<p>A city in Japan has been forced to apologise after a contractor admitted he had lost a USB memory stick containing the personal data of almost half a million residents after an alcohol-fuelled night out.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Amagasaki, western Japan, said the man \u2013 an unnamed employee of a private contractor hired to oversee Covid-19 relief payments to local households \u2013 had taken the flash drive from the city\u2019s offices to transfer the data at a call centre in nearby Osaka.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/24\/japanese-city-worker-loses-usb-containing-personal-details-of-every-resident\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contractor said he lost the device \u2013 storing names, addresses, dates of birth and tax details of 460,000 people \u2013 after an alcohol-fuelled night outA city in Japan has been forced to apologise after a contractor admitted he had lost a USB memory stick &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748\/revisions\/45749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}