Kansai Electric Power Co. was involved in 40,806 cases of unauthorized access to household customer data held by its rivals from April to mid-December last year, the company said Monday.
This is a significant increase from the 14,657 cases that the company announced on Jan. 13 after conducting a probe for a three-month period through last December. The Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry intends to ascertain the situation and demand improvements based on its own investigation of the major power company.
According to KEPCO, the number of its employees and others who have illegally viewed the customer information also increased to 1,013, up from the previously announced 730. The company is currently looking into records for the past three years, the period for which data is available, and cases of unauthorized access are highly likely to increase.
