Customer data stolen from Japan Post worker

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070225TDY02003.htm

A Japan Post employee's bag containing personal information on 290,000 
customers was stolen last month from a parked car in Soka, Saitama 
Prefecture, according to Japan Post.

[...] However, the memory device contained about 290,000 postal transfer 
account holders' names, addresses, account numbers and account opening 
dates as well as the names and account numbers of 31 postal savings 
account holders.

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