Dai-ichi Life Reports 1,155 Unauthorized Data Transfers

Tokyo, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it has confirmed 1,155 cases of unauthorized data transfers by 64 employees seconded from affiliated insurance companies to 28 agents, including banks. The information taken without permission included personal data of customers, the insurance holding company said. The company reprimanded Senior Managing Executive Officer Mamoru Akashi. Chairman Seiji Inagaki, and President and Group CEO Tetsuya Kikuta will voluntarily return 30 pct of their monthly executive compensation for one month. A total of 12 former and current group executives, including incumbent presidents of subsidiaries, will also return some of their pay for one month. The latest findings are based on a Dai-ichi Life Holdings survey on group entities, including Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. and Dai-ichi Frontier Life Insurance Co., that covered the period from April 2021 to October 2025. Although Dai-ichi Life Holdings was aware of the transfers of some internal information in 2024, it did not disclose the matter or explain it to sales agents, stating that “no violation of laws or regulations has been found.” The group started a re-examination after unauthorized data transfers were found at Nippon Life Insurance Co. in 2025. Dai-ichi Life Holdings said that “we have confirmed that we did not systematically order” the misconduct. To prevent a recurrence, the group will scrap the practice of loaning employees to agents for the purpose of insurance sales at the end of March. Among other major Japanese life insurance firms, Nippon Life Insurance has reported 1,543 cases of unauthorized data transfer, Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. 780 cases and Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. 39 cases, respectively. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]