Overview
- An NRA employee misplaced a work-issued emergency smartphone during a private trip to Shanghai, with the loss believed to have occurred at an airport security checkpoint on November 3 and noticed on November 6.
- The phone stored names and contact details of staff in the agency’s non-public nuclear security unit.
- No data leakage has been confirmed so far, and the Nuclear Regulation Authority reported the incident to the Personal Information Protection Commission.
- The emergency smartphone had been issued for rapid mobilization during nuclear accidents or major disasters.
- Following the incident, the agency warned personnel not to take disaster-preparedness phones overseas.