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Au: City of Port Phillip Notification of Potential Data Breach

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Dissent

City of Port Phillip

Statement from Chris Carroll, CEO City of Port Phillip

The City of Port Phillip is committed to being transparent around incidents that may affect you and your data.  As such, it is appropriate to let you know of an incident that occurred recently on our online customer portal, My Port Phillip.

On 9 December, Council become aware that 33 new users to the portal may have been able to view requests other than their own. This occurred after a system upgrade that took place on 7 December and the correct access was restored immediately upon this being identified.

This is not the result of hacking and there have been no updates or deletions made to anybody’s personal data. There is a small possibility, however, that your name, address, phone number and/or email address (if supplied when logging a request) may have been viewed by one of these 33 people.

There is no evidence to suggest users with incorrect access performed any malicious or exploratory activities, but out of an abundance of caution we are notifying customers that currently have an active request open with Council.

We’re sorry and disappointed to share this news. Council regards the protection of personal information to be of great importance and we make every effort to safeguard information under our control.

Council adopts best industry security practices in protecting customer data. We have established multifactored authentication, secure passwords, firewalls, end point protection and encryption when data is accessed, handled, transmitted, hosted or stored.

The following link to the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) website provides a useful resource explaining what a data breach is and how you can reduce the risk of suffering harm because of a breach, including what actions you can take Data breaches and you – Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (ovic.vic.gov.au)

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