Have we ever seen any American executives return their wages over a data security breach? I can’t recall ever seeing that. And while some commenters on this Kyodo News story think the amount is “chicken feed” and a meaningless gesture, it’s still noteworthy, I think:
Japanese welfare minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki and other senior officials doubling as lawmakers will return all the wages they have received since assuming their current posts at the ministry over a massive data leakage from Japan’s pension system in May, the ministry and the Japan Pension Service said Friday.
The refund, which does not include their salaries as lawmakers, is a part of a series of punitive measures the two organizations imposed on their officials, as the JPS’s failure to prepare for cyberattacks allowed its data on about 1 million people to be leaked through the attack.
Read more on Japan Today.