Eighteen hard disk drives discarded by the Kanagawa prefectural government that contained the personal information of an unspecified number of individuals, have been sold in an internet auction, local government officials said Friday.The hard drives were sold online by an employee of a Tokyo-based information equipment recycling company, which was commissioned to scrap them, with nine of them retrieved by the prefecture, but nine others remain unaccounted for.The situation first came to light after a man who bought nine of them contacted the local government. The prefecture, neighboring Tok…READ FULL ARTICLE
