US EditionJapan's Nuclear Agency Loses Phone With Sensitive Data
The lost phone contained confidential nuclear security contacts and could not be remotely wiped, raising concerns of a potential data leak, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said.
- On Nov. 3, an employee of the Nuclear Regulation Authority lost a work-issued phone during a security screening at a Shanghai airport, and the NRA reported the loss to Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission after confirming it held confidential nuclear security contacts.
- The Nuclear Regulation Authority issues disaster-prevention smartphones to certain staff for rapid emergency response and expects NRA employees to carry them at all times; after the loss, it warned against taking phones overseas.
- Three days after the employee noticed the phone was missing, follow-up checks with airport officials in Shanghai failed to recover the work-issued smartphone, and the NRA said it cannot rule out an information leak because the device is out of range.
- The incident adds to a series of missteps that threaten public trust in nuclear oversight as Japan pushes to restart idled reactors, following Chubu Electric Power's Jan 5 announcement and the NRA's suspended review.
- The NRA was created after the 2011 Fukushima disaster to tighten oversight, but security practices have been questioned with at least two incidents at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa since 2023.
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