A press release (machine translated) from the Italian data protection regulator, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali: With reference to the recent hacker attack suffered by Asl 1 Abruzzo, the Guarantor for the protection of personal data reminds that anyone who comes into possession or downloads data published on the dark web by criminal…
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Notice relating to Ambulance Victoria privacy breach
May 17, 2023 On Thursday 11 May 2023 Ambulance Victoria (AV) was made aware that documents containing personal information of some current and prospective employees was accessible to other AV employees on the AV intranet. The documents contained the alcohol and other drug testing results of approximately 600 job applicants undertaken between May 2017 and…
UK: The Downs School, hit by possible cyber attack, seeking help from West Berkshire Council, the Department for Education and cyber security experts
Niki Hinman reports: Pupils at a Compton school have been without access to the internet for nearly a week – because of a possible cyber attack. Downs School wrote to parents explaining that IT systems had been compromised. […] He said the IT department has been working closely with the Department For Education, West Berkshire…
Warnings over NHS data privacy after ‘stalker’ doctor shares woman’s records
Today’s reminder that insider snooping can leave patients anxious, angry, and distrustful of ever sharing their protected health information again — even if they are not the patient who was victimized. Denis Campbell reports on an insider snooping case involving the UK’s NHS: The confidentiality of NHS medical records has been thrown into doubt after a “stalker”…
Vehicle data of over 2 million Toyota users been publicly available in Japan since a decade
Update: As more details emerge, this story gets even bigger in some respects. See this news coverage at: https://www.gizchina.com/2023/05/13/toyota-mishandled-user-data-by-publishing-over-2-million-user-info-online/ Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya report: Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday the vehicle data of about 2.15 million users was left publicly available in Japan for about a decade from November 2013 to mid-April. […]…
Employee records exposed in Ambulance Victoria data breach
Anthony Anderson reports: Confidential employee information has been exposed in a data breach at Ambulance Victoria (AV). The data in question is the drug and alcohol tests of prospective graduate paramedics collected between May 2017 and October 2018. The documents had become accessible on Ambulance Victoria’s internal intranet. Read more at Herald Sun.