Secret Data From Japan Nuke Plants on Web

on June 24 04:06 am Sinister Midget

`The data covering several years consisted of about 40 to 50 megabytes is believed to have leaked from the computer of a maintenance management engineer at the Mitsubishi subsidiary.'

`The engineer used his own computer at the power plants when doing inspections and the data is thought to have been leaked via the peer-to-peer file-sharing software called Winny which was installed in his computer. A virus infection can allegedly cause Winny to send data via the Net to other computers.'

`Japanese police have arrested an elite computer engineer for developing popular piece of software that allows anonymous users to download pirated films and music through a file sharing network.'

`He developed the file sharing application, called Winny and released it free of charge over the Internet in May 2002, enabling users to exchange files stored in their computers.'

`March 29: Confidential information of Kyoto prefectural police were leaked from the virus infected PC.'

`March, April: Confidential information of Hokkaido police, Japanese army, and Japan Post were leaked through Winny network.'

`Affecting computer users across Japan, stealing their most private information and spreading it across the globe is a virus called Kintama, the Japanese word for the male gonads.'

`Kintama was discovered March 15. It affects users of a file sharing program called Winny.'

`Kintama takes a screenshot once a day and also sends whatever files are on a computer desktop into Winny's system, where people are free to open or copy at will.'