Forgot where he left the memory stick

An after-work drink has turned out to be a potentially big problem for a Japanese city.

The city of Amagasaki said last week that a private contractor was carrying a memory stick containing personal data on the city’s 460,000 residents when he went out for drinks after work – then lost the bag containing the stick.

The stick contained the names, gender, addresses, birthdays and other personal data, including tax and bank information, according to the report by CBS News.

The data had been transferred to the memory stick to facilitate its transfer to a call center.

The good news is, the data was encrypted and the memory stick locked with a password and, so far, there is no sign the information has been accessed.