Breaches and incidents
Dai-ichi Life Group / Dai-ichi Life Insurance: shared HR system accessed, about 120,000 employees and retirees exposed
The companies said they detected unauthorized access on 24 Sep to an employee HR system both use, and data of about 120,000 people (about 50,000 current...
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- The companies said they detected unauthorized access on 24 Sep to an employee HR system both use, and data of about 120,000 people (about 50,000 current staff and 70,000 former staff back to 1967) may have been viewed and leaked: employee number, name, address, phone, gender, department, position, duties, manager name.
- Root cause: “unauthorized access by a third party”; no further detail.
- No attacker named.
- No unauthorized access to customer data confirmed and no secondary harm; a dedicated call center was set up.