Happening occurs when personal information for nearly all of the people is mistakenly sent to China

ByHaphazard Traveler

As services available on the Internet such as online banking, SNS, games and more become more and more convenient, incidents of personal information leakage due to criminal acts such as hacking occasionally makes media fuss. However, the problem that the personal information of about 5.2 million people who occurred in Denmark might have leaked was caused by mistakes that can not be easily thought in Japanese common sense.

Five million Danish ID numbers sent to Chinese firm - The Local
http://www.thelocal.dk/20160720/five-million-danish-id-numbers-sent-to-chinese-firm-by-mistake

The Danish Data Protection Agency of Denmark's Data Protection Agency announced that two CDs that had recorded the social security number and health data for the Danish citizen of 5.282 million were sent to Denmark's He was sent to a Chinese visa application office several hundred meters away by mistake, not the statistics bureau. The CD was sent to the research institution Danish State Serum Institute under the umbrella of Ministry of Health of Denmark and the social security number and health data included in the CD were data of people who lived in Denmark between 2010 and 2012 .

ByTed Eytan

The data sent includes diagnosis results on cancer, diabetes, mental illness, etc., social security number, but it seems that the name and address were not included. As of 2013, the population of Denmark is 5.6 million, which means that most people's personal information was misdirected to the Chinese visa application office.

The problem was discovered in the report of the Visa Application Office in China who received the CD. According to the visa application office in China, the staff member who misunderstood opened the envelope. The two CDs were not encrypted despite the presence of important personal information, so the sender Danish State Serum Institute was subject to condemnation.

ByReynermedia

It was in 2015 that personal information was misdirected, and it is questionable why it took so much time until the publication of the problem, but it was not important that it was important data but it was not encrypted And it seems that mistakes that can not be easily thought in common sense, such as the occurrence of erroneous attachment occurred, occurred overlapping.