Information on 125,000 police officers and employees leaked - 20 prefectural police, addresses of citizens registered for crime prevention email - Unauthorized access to Arcadia, National Police Agency

The National Police Agency learned on the 21st that the personal information of approximately 125,000 police officers and employees in 20 prefectural police departments across the country may have been leaked due to unauthorized access to the cloud-based service company Arcadia (Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture). There are also fears that over 18,000 email addresses of citizens and companies registered for security emails may have been leaked.

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According to the National Police Agency and other sources, police departments in 20 prefectures, including Aichi, Hyogo and Hiroshima, have commissioned the company to operate a system that confirms the safety of employees and confirms whether they are able to report to work in the event of a disaster or other emergency. There is a possibility that the names and email addresses of registered police officers and employees were leaked. Most of the addresses appear to be for private cell phones, as they are for emergency communications, and some prefectural police departments, including those in Tochigi and Saitama, also have their affiliation information registered.

Police departments in four prefectures, including Shimane and Yamaguchi, entrust the company with systems for distributing crime prevention information to citizens and businesses. A total of 16,000 individual names and addresses and 2,600 companies and corporations were registered as recipients. Kyoto and Fukuoka prefectural police were reportedly using both systems.