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Saturday, December 7, 2019

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UNAUTHORIZED POSSESSION Buyer of hard disks shocked to find mountains of government dataDecember 7, 2019 A man who won an Internet auction for used hard disks soon discovered that he was in the possession of confidential and sensitive government information that he had no business reading.
POSSIBLE POWER HARASSMENT Superior's role in suicide of rookie employee under investigationDecember 7, 2019 Police in Hyogo Prefecture have sent papers to prosecutors alleging an employee at Mitsubishi Electric Corp. induced the suicide of a rookie employee he was training through power harassment at work, including reportedly telling him to die.

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