Panasonic employee improperly uploaded colleagues' and family members' information to an external GenAI service, affecting approximately 334,000 people
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Panasonic Excellence Operations (PEX) announced that an employee responsible for a human resources information system project violated the rules by uploading data on current employees, former employees, and family members to a prohibited external generative AI service platform, affecting approximately 334,000 people in total. The data involved includes employee numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and emergency contact information. The GenAI service provider stated that the data was not incorporated into its training database, that data retained in accordance with compliance requirements will be deleted on October 25, and that no data breach has occurred so far.
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松下员工违规上传同事及家属信息至 GenAI 服务，影响 33.4 万人
2026-10-26 16:22 IT之家 - 溯波（实习）
IT之家 10 月 26 日消息，松下卓越运营 (PEX) 日本当地时间本月 23 日发布公告，就其与子公司松下数字共同开展的人力资源信息系统项目出现的信息违规上传事件进行通告并向受影响者致歉。
根据公告，负责人力资源信息系统项目的一名员工违反既定规则，将包含现员工、前员工及员工家属的数据上传到禁止使用的外部生成式人工智能服务平台。
此次事件影响到使用松下集团统一人力资源信息系统的 7.5 万名现员工、17.8 万名前员工、5.5 万名现员工家属、2.6 万名前员工家属，合计约 33.4 万人。涉及数据包括现 / 前员工的编号、地址、电话号码、电邮地址以及作为紧急联系人的家属的姓名、地址、电话号码、电邮地址。
本次事件发生后，导致事故的员工删除了生成式 AI 的聊天记录以及用于工作的电脑中的相关数据。GenAI 服务提供方表示，这些数据并未被纳入训练资料库，根据合规要求保留的数据也将在 10 月 25 日被删除。目前尚未出现这批数据泄露的情况。