http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060321TDY02008.htm The Yomiuri Shimbun Mar. 21, 2006 Ehime prefectural police have announced that confidential personal information on 4,400 people was included in files accidentally uploaded to the Internet via Winny file-sharing software. The investigation data was leaked through the computer of a 42-year-old police inspector of the criminal investigation department and included information on crime suspects, victims and investigation informants, as well as statements from suspects. The announcement was the first by the police on how much data had been compromised. The police, however, had not publicized details about the data in an effort to protect the people concerned. According to the Ehime police, the oldest bit of leaked data dated back to 1984. The police began searching for the data on the Internet after they were notified of the leak on March 5. After recently obtaining the leaked files, they confirmed the contents were identical to material the police inspector had transferred from his personal computer to several compact discs. The police will apologize to people whose personal information was leaked and launch a free telephone consultation service concerning the incident in a few days. The police are requesting that providers and managers of Internet bulletin boards delete the leaked data if it is uploaded onto their Web sites. In a similar case that surfaced earlier this month, Okayama prefectural police investigation data, including personal information of about 1,500 crime victims and suspects, was leaked through the software _________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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