Dutch News reports: A data breach at the Dutch land registry Kadaster has exposed the addresses of every homeowner in the Netherlands, an investigation by RTL Nieuws has found. The privacy watchdog AP called for the agency to close the loophole immediately after it was discovered by journalists. The Kadaster’s website includes a search facility…
Category: Exposure
NYC Finance Department Sent Every Employee Their Colleagues’ Personal Info
Yoav Gonen reports: The city Department of Finance inadvertently emailed a roster of all of its staff — containing home addresses, cell numbers and personal email addresses — to the agency’s roughly 1,800 employees in a botched test of its emergency notification system, THE CITY has learned. The snafu was accompanied by automated calls to…
UK: Press notice regarding data breach at Norfolk and Suffolk police
Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies have identified an issue relating to a very small percentage of responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, issued between April 2021 and March 2022. A technical issue has led to some raw data belonging to the constabularies being included within the files produced in response to the…
Cumbria Police admits huge data breach as names and salaries of staff published online
Jon Macpherson reports: Another police force has admitted a data breach after the names and salaries of all its staff were accidentally published online. Cumbria Police said that on March 6 it found out information about pay and allowances had been uploaded on its website following a “human error”. The force’s admission comes after an…
Outrage at massive police data breach that saw the personal details of more than 10,000 PSNI officers and staff accidentally published online
Daisy Graham-Brown reports: Police in Northern Ireland have been involved in a data breach ‘of monumental proportions’ affecting thousands of officers and civilian staff. The major breach reportedly involves names, ranks and other personal data from employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), but does not involve the officers’ and civilians’ private addresses, it is…
NZ privacy commissioner learnt about ‘serious’ breach from the media
Jonathan Killick reports: The Privacy Commissioner is “frustrated” to have learnt about a “serious” privacy breach through the media, relating to the email addresses of 147 firearms owners being spilled. In July, it was reported that the email addresses of licence holders were to sent to each other after a list of addresses was pasted in the…