Personal information leaked LINE Yahoo ”considering downsizing Naver business outsourcing” = South Korean report

LINE Yahoo, the company that operates the LINE app that caused the personal information leak issue, is expected to review its Naver business outsourcing. Points out by the Japanese government
It seems to be for. NHK and other foreign news outlets reported on the 29th that LINE Yahoo has decided to review its outsourcing to Naver, which was the cause of the information leak.
According to the report, a LINE Yahoo official said, ``While checking the impact on LINE users, we will outsource information and communications (IT) infrastructure-related work to Naver.''
We have decided to move forward with specific considerations in the direction of downsizing." Earlier, on the 5th of this month, Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced that LINE Yahoo has imposed excessive restrictions on Naver, a major shareholder to whom LINE Yahoo has outsourced its system operations.
While pointing out that the country was dependent on At the same time, they demand improvements to the management system, including a "review of the capital relationship between LINE Yahoo and Naver."
Administrative guidance was given. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has instructed LINE Yahoo to report on measures to prevent recurrence by the 1st of next month. NHK has announced that the Japanese government has also requested a review of its capital relationship with LINE Yahoo.
The company said it plans to proceed with discussions with Naver together with its shareholder Softbank. The day before, the Japan Personal Information Protection Commission announced that the LINE Yahoo Communication Line app (application
), personal information was leaked, and it was determined that there were insufficient security controls for data processing, and recommendations were made to improve the system. In addition, the revision committee is looking at users who have submitted items on the auction site ``Yahoo! Auctions''.
There was a possibility that some of their personal data may have been leaked, and they were given guidance on how to prevent it from happening again. In particular, they requested that the first report containing the implementation status of measures to prevent recurrence be submitted by April 26th.
Last November, LINE Yahoo announced that information about its users and business partners may have been leaked to an external party. LINE Yahoo collects 44 pieces of personal information such as LINE users, business partners, employees, etc.
There is a possibility that 10,000 cases were leaked.'' A subsequent investigation revealed that an additional 79,000 personal information may have been compromised, bringing the total number of leaked personal information to 520,000. personal information
The leak incident had a huge impact on Japan's IT industry. LINE Yahoo is a joint venture called ``A Holdin'', in which Naver and Japan's Softbank each invested 50%.
Gus holds 64.4% of the shares. LINE Yahoo operates Japan's most widely used messenger, LINE, and Japan's largest portal, Yahoo. LINE in Japan
The number of people who use it at least once a month reaches 96 million.