A drunk employee lost the personal data of an entire city in Japan

A worker, whatever the sector, Under no circumstances should you consume alcohol during your working day. Although a beer over lunch may seem harmless, the truth is that it can often decrease productivity and even lead to disability or neglect at work.

The latest confirmed case of professional intoxication was that of an employee of a technology company involved in one of the largest personal data leaks in living memory. In particular, one sensitive information of 460,000 people belonging to the population of the city of Amagasaki, Japan.

Apparently, the municipal government of that city had to make maintenance payments to families that were exempt from the tourist tax. To do this, he hired a technology company in the nearby town of Suita to help him manage aid.

One of the contractor’s workers took it upon himself to make a copy on a USB stick of the complete registry of all citizens, which includes their dates of birth, addresses and information on taxes and aid. However, instead of doing it in the register, the employee took the USB in his briefcase to make a copy to a computer in his company, which he did not have permission for.

Unfortunately, the memory never made it to the computer. The clerk got drunk and fell asleep on the street before making the copy e the briefcase he carried with him has disappearedlosing the personal data of the 460,000 people belonging to the Japanese population of Amagasaki.

Even so, the mayor of the country wanted to send a message of calm to the population, ensuring that the data is protected by a 13-character password and that at the moment no losses have been reported.

After a few days of nervousness and occupation, the employee reconstructed everything he had done during his drunkenness and finally got recover the lost briefcase very close to where he fell asleep and with all its contents intact including the USB inside.

Despite the big scandal that occurred in Japan due to the loss of a lot of information due to an employee’s drunkenness, the contracted technology company did not provide further information on the employee’s status, nor if there was any kind of sanction in this regard.

Amagasaki, the city of Japan’s largest train accident

The city of Amagasaki is sadly remembered for a very serious train accident. In 2005, at least 107 people died and more than 500 were seriously injured when a high-speed train derailed and collided with an apartment building, in the country’s worst train accident in 40 years.

At the time, authorities suspected the 23-year-old driver had accelerated and failed to turn a corner in time, causing seven carriages to derail in that working-class city in western Japan, near Osaka and Kobe.

Tsunemi Murakami, safety director of the West Japan Railway (JR West) railway company, calculated that the train would have to travel at least 130 kilometers per hour to derail on that curve where it shouldn’t have exceeded 70.

According to the testimonies of some passengers, the train was delayed by 1 and a half minutes compared to the scheduled time because it had passed a station and had to go back to drop the passengers.

A wagon wreck was scattered around the building, and rescue teams were searching for survivors among the pieces of metal. Another car was tipped onto the floor next to the building.

The train company initially claimed that the cause of the accident was the train colliding with a car at a level crossing, but after an initial investigation it found that the train derailed a hundred meters ahead of that location.

The driver, Ryujiro Takami, who died following the accident, had 11 months of work experience and had also spent time at a station in June of the same year.

With information from La Vanguardia.