Health insurer Aflac blames US partner for leak of Japanese cancer policy info

Global insurer Aflac's Japanese branch has revealed that personal data describing more than three million customers of its cancer insurance product has been leaked online. The company has apologized [PDF in Japanese] to customers and admitted that their surname, age, gender, and insurance cover were all leaked. The insurer …

[Potemkine!]

We should start to consider that a data that was digitalized will be hacked in the end, it's just a matter of time

Cybersecurity is no more "how can we protect from threats" only but more and more "what should we do once the systems are hacked": how to quickly restore the systems, how to warn users, is there any plan defined in advance to react to a successful attack...

[Brian 3]

It not being considered at the outset is simply no less than malpractice and negligence. If your business is the storage of important and valuable things, it's not a question of whether or not someone will come to get some of it, but rather how frequently attempts will be made.

Just more "take an obvious outcome and pretend you didn't see it coming because it's to do with the INTERNET so it's totally different than before".