Japan Pension System Hacked, Millions of Personal Data Including Address, Leaked

Japan's pension system was hacked and because of this, over one million of personal data leaked. The data includes names, birth dates, addresses and even identification numbers. These personal data were stolen upon through a virus in an email.

After the discovery of the incident, there was a call for an immediate remedy. The infected computer is now isolated in order to prevent the virus from spreading to other computers used by the organization. A team is already being set up in order to further investigate on what may have happened. Apart from that, they are going to create preventive measures as to avoid such from recurring. The Japan pension system has shared that they would change the pension numbers of those people who were affected by the hacking.    

On a lighter note, the pensioners' history and financial details are said to be still intact. Phys reports that this claim might change as the President of the Japan Pension Service said that they contacted the police to investigate the matter and conduct a further internal probe.

This isn't the first time that a controversy about pension has happened in Japan. In 2007, the people were outraged as there were millions of people who paid for the premium, only to find out that it was not accounted.

The danger of these leaked data is obviously pretty serious. Apart from the fact that the financial records might be jeopardize, the safety and security of those people with leaked information is already at stake. That's the bigger problem everyone has to face. They could be easily tracked most especially with the availability of their addresses.  

To date, there is an instruction to do everything possible and to prioritize the pension recipients. Hopefully, Japan's pension system will be resolved immediately and that stronger means to avoid this hacking incident will be in place.