I started covering Aadhaar years ago on PogoWasRight.org as a data protection mega-disaster waiting to happen. Those early posts are no longer available online, but I’ve continued to watch for news on its implementation and concerns. And while India’s government keeps reiterating that everything is secure and fine, I keep seeing breach/leak reports. So I…
Category: Government Sector
Aadhaar data leak in Jharkhand raises doubts, again: Here are the details
Business Standard reports: An incident in Jharkhand again seems to have raised some serious questions of Aadhaar’s data-breach vulnerabilities. The Aadhaar numbers of hundreds of thousands of pension beneficiaries were suspected to have been illegally displayed on a government website in Jharkhand, in violation of the Aadhaar Act, The Indian Express reported. The lapse, apparently, occured due…
KE: Ronald Nsale denies hacking into Safaricom system
An Ugandan man was on Friday charged with hacking into Safaricom’s system. Ronald Nsale had been in police custody and was presented in court following allegations that he had hacked into the electoral commission’s systems. It was alleged that he was working with the Islamic State group and was charged with unauthorized access to a…
30,000 London gun owners hit by Met Police ‘data breach’
Gareth Corfield reports: London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm’s advertising campaign. The first any of the affected people knew about the blunder was when the leaflet (pictured below)…
JP: GMO Payment Gateway submits report with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry over data leakage
Maria Nikolova reports: More than a month has passed since Japanese provider of payment processing services GMO Payment Gateway Inc confirmed that personal data leakage that had affected the websites of two of its clients – the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japan Housing Finance Agency. […] At the end of last week, GMO Payment Gateway…
Breaking: Voters’ personal data at risk in Cobb theft
Aaron Gould Sheinin reports on yet another breach involving Georgia voters’ information: State officials are investigating the theft last week of equipment from a Cobb County precinct manager’s car that could make every Georgia voters’ personal information vulnerable to theft. The equipment, used to check-in voters at the polls, was stolen Saturday evening, Secretary of…