Japan Pension Service staff computers were improperly accessed by an external email virus, leading to the leak of some 1.25 million cases of personal data, the system's president, Toichiro ...

Japanese Pension Service officials said the breach occurred after hackers infiltrated the system through an virus contained in an email link, commonly known as a phishing attack. The digital ...

The Japan Pension Service has underpaid some 104,000 pension beneficiaries due to data entry mistakes by a subcontractor, the organization announced on March 26. The underpayments apparently ...

That part would be up to half of their net income losses. And the Japan Pension Service would refund 80 percent of the additional coverage to those businesses. This would amount to padding the ...

the Japan Pension Service (JPS) was hacked. The personal information of over 1.2 million Japanese people was apparently stolen from the pension management system. Ninety percent of the information ...

the Japan Pension Service announced Monday. In a scandal reminiscent of the nation's botched handling of pension records about a decade ago, people's pension IDs, names, addresses and birth dates ...

The Japan Pension Service has started sending new pension booklets to about 1.25 million people whose information was leaked in a big data hack in May. The welfare ministry said affected individuals ...

The massive leak last month of personal data from the Japan Pension Service was the result of a simple error by its employees: opening a virus-laced email attachment ...

About 1.25 million personal records have been leaked after a cyber-attack on the management system for Japan’s pension service. The number of cases may increase, Japan Pension Service President ...

Tokyo: Japan's pension service said today it suffered a hack attack that led to 1.25 million cases of personal data being leaked. An employee opened an e-mail with a virus, triggering the release ...