Channel News Asia reports: JAKARTA: Indonesia’s election commission is investigating the release of 2.3 million voters’ private information on a hacker website along with a threat to release of the data of about 200 million people, the agency said on Friday (May 22). The electoral data from the world’s fourth most-populous nation was posted anonymously…
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Ohioans’ and Coloradans’ personal info exposed in pandemic unemployment data breaches
Two more states have reported breaches or issues with state portals to apply for pandemic-related unemployment benefits. In Ohio, Maggy McDonel reports: The personal information of Ohioans receiving pandemic unemployment assistance was recently exposed to a data breach, according to Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. The information reportedly included names, Social Security numbers…
Coronavirus: Serco shares email addresses of hundreds of contact tracers in ‘privacy breach’
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…
Tusla fined €75,000 for three GDPR violations
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.
FBI investigating security breach of Arkansas’ self-employed aid website
Rolly Hoyt reports: The troubled website Arkansas built from scratch to offer unemployment assistance to freelancers and contractors knocked out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic remains offline Monday because of a security breach detected before the weekend. Technicians with the state Department of Commerce have been working to fix the portal after a person…
RU: Payment portals leak the passport numbers of the tens of thousands of Muscovites ticketed for quarantine violations
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,…