Asha Barbaschow reports: Public Transport Victoria (PTV) has been found in breach of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (PDP Act) by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) for releasing data that exposed the travel history of 15,184,336 myki cards. The myki dataset contained a record of “touch on” and “touch off”…
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SC: Data breach exposes information of more than 800 Charleston Co. employees
Nick Krueger reports: The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has been notified after more than 800 Charleston County employees were part of a data breach because of an inadvertent email which was sent out by a county Human Resources employee. According to county spokesman Shawn Smetana, that email contained the names, dates of birth, social security…
Indian Army detects cybersecurity breach in Northern Command officer’s computer
ANI News reports that a senior Indian Army intelligence officer detected a cybersecurity breach in a computer connected to the Army’s intranet. Investigators are now trying to determine how the malware was injected.
UK: JAILED: Chorley hacker who took down police websites
From This is Lancashire: A 20-YEAR-old man who carried out cyber attacks on police websites as revenge for being convicted of a bomb hoax has been locked up for 16 months. Liam Watts, from Chorley, targeted the Greater Manchester Police website in August last year and then carried out an attack on Cheshire Police sites…
FI: Tax authority estimates 27,000 customers affected by mix-up
Yle reports: An error by the Finnish tax authority Vero, in which approximately 27,000 customers received letters containing information relating to other individuals, has created a serious data protection situation, according to the Assistant Data Protection Commissioner Jari Råman. “It is always a serious situation when personal information goes to the wrong place. Especially if…
Records with Information on 770 Elder Abuse or Dependent Adult Abuse Cases Stolen From Riverside County Employee’s Car
CBS reports: Nearly 800 paper files containing sensitive information were stolen last month from a Riverside County employee’s vehicle, the county announced Thursday. The records, stolen July 27, contained sensitive information about cases investigated by the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services, putting the personal data of 770 individuals at risk of misuse, officials…