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Coronavirus: Serco shares email addresses of hundreds of contact tracers in ‘privacy breach’

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Dissent

Matt Mathers reports: E-mail addresses of 300 contact tracers have been shared accidentally by Serco in what could be a breach of data protection rules. The government is using the outsourcing firm to help with its tracing strategy aimed at monitoring Covid-19 cases. The company has been training people to track cases of coronavirus in the UK and has so far…

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Tusla fined €75,000 for three GDPR violations

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Dissent

Luke Irwin reports: Tusla, Ireland’s child and family agency, has been fined €75,000 for three breaches of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It was found to have disclosed the personal information of children to unauthorised parties on three occasions. Read more on IT Governance.

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Covve revealed as source of data breach impacting 23m individuals

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Dissent

Adam Bannister reports: Covve, the popular address book app, has been identified as the source of a data breach that exposed the details of nearly 23 million individuals. Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned?, tweeted on Saturday (May 16) that the app had been pinpointed as the source of a publicly accessible database that he had been…

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RU: Data of 9 million customers of the Russian courier service leaked, but whose leak is it?

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Dissent

E Hacking News reports: Data belonging to nine million customers of the CDEC Express transportation service was put up for sale on the Web for 70 thousand rubles ($950). This is the largest leak of personal data in Russian delivery services […] The CDEC claims that there was no data leak from the company. As…

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UK: Over 190 Law Firms Affected by Advanced Data Leak That Exposed Over 10,000 Legal Documents

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Dissent

Alicia Hope: A leading UK software company exposed personal information belonging to over 190 law firms through an unsecured online database. TurgenSec security firm discovered the breach but could not immediately identify the owner of the online database and therefore contacted the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Following the Responsible Disclosure Policy, the firm contacted…

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RU: Payment portals leak the passport numbers of the tens of thousands of Muscovites ticketed for quarantine violations

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Dissent

Sourced from Kommersant, Meduza reports: Over the past two months, Moscow has issued tens of thousands of fines to local residents for violating the city’s coronavirus self-isolation restrictions. Thanks to weak cryptographic security, the personal data of those ticketed is now available online. The blog Nora Ezhika first drew attention to the data leak on May 12,…

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