Data of 42 Yamaguchi health programme participants leaked
The personal information of 42 participants in Yamaguchi Vitality Walk, a health promotion programme run by Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture in partnership with Sumitomo Life, was leaked. Unauthorised access to a contractor exposed names, dates of birth and other information.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information of 42 participants
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to a contractor
- Location
- Japan
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- It emerged that unauthorised access to the contractor for Yamaguchi Vitality Walk had led to the leak of 42 people’s personal information.
- It emerged that participants’ names and dates of birth were among the information leaked.
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