Japan Pension Service data leak
Add to my breach checkMade public · 1,250,000 records
What leaked4
Hard to replace
- Home or delivery address
Permanent
- National ID or tax number
- Date of birth
- Full name
- National ID or tax numberBasic Pension Number · kiso nenkin bango, in every leaked record
- Date of birthabout 1.22 million of the 1.25 million records
- Home or delivery addressabout 52,000 records
To-dos
None of the harms this check covers.
What happened next18 events
- Undetected 2 events20 days · show events
- Response 12 eventsNotice in 6 days · show events
- RemedyNone on record
- Penalty 4 eventsOngoing · Back to latest
- DisputesNone on record
Penalty: 4 events
Back to latest- The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare issued a business improvement order to the agency's president
- The head of the Cybersecurity Strategic Headquarters (Chief Cabinet Secretary) issued a recommendation to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- The government's Cybersecurity Strategic Headquarters published its root-cause investigation
- MHLW set up a verification committee chaired by a former Supreme Court justice
- Company
- Japan Pension Service
- When it happened
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 1,250,000 records · Japan Pension Service, June 2015
Sources
- 日本年金機構 company notice, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 日本年金機構 company notice, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 厚生労働省 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 日本年金機構 company notice, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026