Teikyo Heisei University Data Leak: Personal Information of 12 Students Exposed

2023-08-18 11:49:58

Teikyo Heisei University (headquartered in Tokyo) said on the 18th that it had confirmed that the personal information of 12 students had been leaked due to the problem that the records of job consultations had been leaked outside the university and reused as the backing paper. . In addition, 807 consultation records have not been confirmed within the university, and an investigation is underway as it may have been leaked.

Desired place of employment, contents of application documents

According to the university’s website, the problem occurred at the employment support office on the Chiba Campus (Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture). The university had entrusted employment consultation services for students to Tokio Marine & Nichido Career Service (Tokyo).

Records of student career counseling. The back side was reused for English teaching materials (provided, some image processing)

A career counselor dispatched by the company took home a record of student interviews and reused it as the backing paper. On the 3rd of this month, the university was notified by a person who picked up the interview record at a restaurant, and the leak was discovered.

This counselor was dispatched to the university from April 2018 to July 23. The leaked personal information included the student’s name, student ID number, mobile phone number, desired employer, job interview status, and content of application documents. At this time, no damage has been confirmed, such as the leaked personal information being misused.

12 confirmed outflows University “Apologize from the bottom of my heart”

As a measure to prevent recurrence, all counselors will be trained on personal information, and the interview record paper will be discarded on the same day after the content is entered into the university system.

The university also issued an apology, saying, “We sincerely apologize for worrying and causing trouble.” 12 people who were confirmed to have leaked the data and 807 people who may have been exposed to it are being contacted in writing.

A person claiming to be a student at Teikyo Heisei University provided information about this issue to the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper “News from Anata”, which was reported in the morning edition of the 18th.

In an interview with this paper, a private tutor who teaches English at a family restaurant in Chiba Prefecture testified that “it was used as a teaching material.” The materials were provided in printed form by the counselor’s family. The tutor didn’t realize there was personal information on the back, and she “just thought it was just the back,” she said. (Satoshi Tanioka)


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