As seen on the European Data Protection Board (EDPB): The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has fined the Municipality of Indre Østfold EUR 20 000 (NOK 200,000) for a confidentiality violation. Personal data that should have been restricted was available to unauthorized persons. The Municipality of Indre Østfold, formerly the Municipality of Askim, published the records…
Category: Exposure
In: Exclusive: Congress puts personal data of thousands of its supporters at risk, massive security loophole found on its website
OpIndia staff report: The recently launched drive by the Congress party to induct a whopping 5 lakhs ‘social media warriors’ to support the party has turned out to be an exercised marred with massive security loopholes. The Congress IT cell seems to have slipped even in employing basic IT security systems in place for this…
NC: SSA first sends confidential records to the wrong people, then refuses credit monitoring
Nate Morabito reports: Despite mistakenly sending confidential personal records to the wrong people, the Social Security Administration refused to offer free credit monitoring to those whose identities were compromised, but the federal agency appears to now have changed its stance. As we reported Friday, several people from Charlotte confirmed SSA sent their original documents to…
Romania’s biggest real estate portal suffers major data breach
Andrei Chirileasa reports: The largest real estate portal in Romania, Imobiliare.ro, has suffered a data breach that could potentially affect its entire client database, reports Website Planet quoted by Profit.ro. It remains unknown whether the company’s client information fell into nefarious hands, but the company’s bucket was found to be exposed, without password protection or encryption….
Stiftung Warentest uncovered major security gaps in online etailer.
Marion Neumann reports (translation): Munich – In times of the corona lockdown , online shopping is probably a blessing for many people. Products can be conveniently delivered to your home with just a few clicks. However, the shopping experience becomes problematic when there are difficulties with data protection. There was such a problem recently with the online shop voelkner.de . According…
WI: Shorewood School District mistakenly releases student info while responding to records request
Mary Jo Ola reports: The Shorewood School District mistakenly released students’ personal information while responding to an open records request. TMJ4 News learned a parent made the request to see results of the district survey and was surprised to see personal information was not redacted. Read more on TMJ4.