Jacqueline Le reports: The communications watchdog has slammed Telstra for publishing the personal details of more than 700,000 customers online for most of last year. As many as 734,000 Telstra customers had their names, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s licence details and dates of birth, published online between March and December 2011. The user…
Category: Exposure
UK: Privacy glitch forces porn filtering consultation offline
Stewart Mitchell reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office is looking into complaints over a privacy breach on the consultation on web porn blocking launched yesterday on the Department of Education’s website. The department’s entire consultation page is currently down, cutting into the ten-week window for posting opinions on whether adult sites should be filtered by default….
AU: Alert over hotel privacy
Hannah Martin reports: Consumer action groups are warning companies to take better care of client information after a Hobart hotel breached the privacy of more than 600 guests. Quest Trinity apartments blamed a “glitch” in their email system for sending out promotional material that revealed the contact details of their guests. Recipients were not blind…
Real Life Computer Privacy Breach For Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs?
Mark Coupe writes: Ever since coming out of nowhere and wowing the world at E3, pretty much everyone has been talking about Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs. Looking and feeling truly next-gen both in its AI and astounding visuals many people think we are looking at a launch title for the next series of consoles. Meanwhile Ubisoft…
AU: RailCorp violated NSW privacy law by not properly wiping lost USB drives before auctioning them – report
Remember the news coverage of how RailCorp was auctioning off USB drives left on trains without properly wiping them first? There’s a follow-up to the story on Infosecurity-Magazine this week: The state-owned passenger rail service RailCorp did not comply with New South Wales’ (NSW) privacy law when it “cleansed” data from unclaimed USB keys that…
Update, NZ: ACC privacy breach payout offered
An update to a privacy breach previously noted on this blog: Compensation offered to victims of a mass privacy breach by ACC will be at the “lower end”, ACC Minister Judith Collins said. ACC has posted letters to about 250 people whose cases are with ACC’s sensitive claims unit – which holds details of victims…