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Tepco report reveals lack of preparedness

Japan Times

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has released a 41-page timeline detailing its initial actions in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear plant crisis, and experts said it reveals a lack of preparedness and severe difficulty in coping with the world's worst atomic accident since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown. According to Tepco, plant director Masao Yoshida ordered staff to prepare to lower the pressure in reactor No. 1 by venting steam from its containment vessel at 12:06 a.m. on March 12, more than eight hours after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunamic knocked out power to the plant and triggered the crisis. (Japan Times)

Sega London hacking affects 1.29 million

Japan Times

Sega Corp. said Sunday that hackers broke into the website of its London unit, Sega Europe Ltd., and stole personal information on all of its 1,290,755 registered users. The users of the website are mostly in Europe and North America, the major game software company said as it worked to quickly disclosed the number of people believed affected. It said the stolen information comprises names, birth dates, email addresses and encrypted passwords but no credit card data. (Japan Times)