Japan foreign ministry says PC leaked docs to external server

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/728343/japan-foreign-ministry-says-pc-leaked-docs-to-external-server

By Jay Alabaster
IDG News Service
February 06, 2013

Japan's foreign ministry said that a computer was compromised and 
documents were probably copied to an external server.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that about 20 documents are feared 
to have been stolen, though none of them were confidential. The ministry 
said it was made aware of the breach on Jan. 28 by Japan's National 
Information Security Center, a government body. The incident was 
described in a public posting dated Tuesday.

The leak occurred on a government network that doesn't handle highly 
sensitive materials. The documents leaked were all rated at the 
country's second-highest security clearance or lower, which the ministry 
describes as documents that are not classified but "could infringe the 
rights of the public or impede administrative affairs if leaked."

The ministry said it immediately took measures to stop leaks to the 
server in question and is working with outside specialists to 
investigate the incident. It did not provide information on the external 
server, as investigations are still going on.

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