Paul Farrell reports: A Chinese asylum seeker at Villawood detention centre says an immigration department officer threatened to force her on to a plane for deportation if she did not sign a document waiving the department’s responsibility for harm she may suffer if she was returned to China after a massive data breach. Read more…
Category: Exposure
Telstra fined, warned after new privacy breach
Mitchell Bingemann reports: TELSTRA has been fined $10,200 and warned over privacy breaches after an information leak exposed almost 16,000 of its customers’ private data online. In a joint investigation by the federal Privacy Commissioner and the communications watchdog, Telstra was found to have breached the Privacy Act by exposing online the data of some…
AU: Asylum seeker data breach triggers court battles
Breaches have consequences. Bianca Hall reports further developments in a breach previously noted on this blog: The federal government will be forced to simultaneously fight dozens of court appeals later this month following a privacy breach, with about 40 asylum seekers preparing to launch appeals against their deportation in the Federal Circuit Court. The asylum…
The Timken Company notifying 5,000 associates after data exposed on insecure server
Ohio-based The Timken Company, a global steel and bearing manufacturer and supplier, is notifying current and former associates and job applicants of a data security breach that occurred on January 30 and was discovered February 19. The breach occurred when a file containing personal information was stored on a server normally used for interchange of non-confidential information…
Two Iowa Dept. of Human Services employees blamed for security breaches of more than 2,000 Iowans’ personal information
The Iowa Department of Human Services announced Friday that there was a breach in personal information related to some Polk County social work assessments. There are 2,042 individuals whose information was included in the breach, which happened during the assessment period of some child and dependent adult abuse cases. Letters were mailed this week notifying…
NZ: Wintec shuts web site after security breach
Libby Wilson reports: She wanted to apply for a parking permit – instead Wintec student Bronwyn Fleet got the details of people who already had. The second-year student visited the application site in the student portal in January and was astounded when a list including names, contact numbers and car registration numbers appeared on the…