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Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 10 2019, @05:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-a-big-easter-egg dept.

shortscreen writes:

From Asahi Shimbun

A man who won an Internet auction for used hard disks soon discovered that he was in the possession of confidential and sensitive government information that he had no business reading.

At first, the man, who owns an information technology company, was puzzled when he found repeated mention in the file names of Kanagawa Prefecture.

But he was in for a greater shock when he used recovery software and found that the files on the hard disks contained mountains of data compiled by the Kanagawa prefectural government.

The data included everything from individuals who were behind on their taxes and the amount; documents considering the seizure of assets; documents related to contract bid amounts; rosters of employees at public schools; and even design blueprints for electric power plants and water supply works.

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday December 10 2019, @07:34PM (5 children)

    by Immerman (3985) on Tuesday December 10 2019, @07:34PM (#930720)

    I must say, I've never before seen someone manage to break their New Years Resolution before New Years even arrives. That's got to be some kind of record.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:18PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:18PM (#930783) Journal

    The idea is that maybe 2020 could finally be the first year that I don't break it. I'm trying so hard.

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    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday December 11 2019, @02:39PM (3 children)

      by Immerman (3985) on Wednesday December 11 2019, @02:39PM (#931050)

      Well... I suppose if you squint just right making a self-breaking resolution is kind of like not breaking it yourself?

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 11 2019, @03:52PM (2 children)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 11 2019, @03:52PM (#931084) Journal

        Self breaking resolutions are better than resolutions that require manual effort to break. Easier to deploy. More complex to construct.

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        • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:06PM (1 child)

          by Immerman (3985) on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:06PM (#931096)

          I suppose at the master level you construct resolutions that preemptively break next year's resolution? Or perhaps retroactively break last years?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @10:22PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @10:22PM (#931240)

            This sentence is a non-self-breaking non-resolution of itself.