In an act of incredible oversight, a staggering amount of personal data was lost by an individual. A Japanese businessman lost an entire city's personal data after passing out drunk on a Tuesday night.
Who has not gone all out for a spontaneous Tuesday night binge and had a few too many sake's after a challenging work week? A lot of us.
The herd begins to shrink when the selection is reduced to the employees who likewise passed out on the sidewalk and misplaced a flash drive with the personal data of close to 500,000 people.
But according to Vice, a 40-year-old Japanese businessman experienced just that this past week. He went out for drinks in the industrial Amagasaki city of Osaka Prefecture and awoke hours later on the street.
His bag, which had the USB drive containing the private information he was always bringing about, was gone. According to the report, the drive was encrypted and had the personal information of the 465,177 inhabitants of Amagasaki.
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