USB storage device leads to leaked Japanese nuclear secrets
July, 2005
4th July 2005 Sensitive nuclear secrets have been uploaded on to the Internet after a careless worker's home PC became infected with a virus.
Japanese manufacturing giant Mitsubishi Electric admitted that confidential data on seven nuclear facilities was posted on the Internet after one of its workers became victim to a virus.
An employee of Mitsubishi Electric Plant Engineering unit had transferred data onto an external device to work on them on his PC at home. The 30-year-old engineer's home PC was infected with a virus, the company told reporters, which automatically uploaded the data onto a peer-to-peer file-sharing program.
Read the full story at Infoconomy.
Japanese manufacturing giant Mitsubishi Electric admitted that confidential data on seven nuclear facilities was posted on the Internet after one of its workers became victim to a virus.
An employee of Mitsubishi Electric Plant Engineering unit had transferred data onto an external device to work on them on his PC at home. The 30-year-old engineer's home PC was infected with a virus, the company told reporters, which automatically uploaded the data onto a peer-to-peer file-sharing program.
Read the full story at Infoconomy.
