Rebecca Horan reports: The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating a data security breach made by Irish mortgage campaigners New Beginning. According to The Mail on Sunday, 1,500 homeowners had their financial details sold to a €2bn overseas investment fund that aims to buy up 1,500 distressed homes here. The Malta based fund Arizun reportedly used the…
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SG: Two-factor authentication for SingPass will be opt-in next year
Singapore will introduce two-factor authentication in the wake of this SingPass breach earlier this year. Kevin Kwang reports: The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) will be implementing a one-year transition period from the launch of a two-factor authentication (2FA) system for SingPass in the third quarter of 2015, it said on Thursday (Nov 27). This is because…
Italy: Garante introduces ‘progressive’ mandatory breach notification
DataGuidance reports: The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) issued, on 26 November 2014, its general resolution on biometrics (‘the Resolution’), which includes a new 24-hour data breach notification obligation. The requirement was introduced a means of balancing the new simplified rules on authorisation for use of biometrics which will no longer require the Garante’s prior…
Ca: Privacy breach at city hall
Andrew Peplowski reports: Montreal police say officers had good intentions when they required city hall visitors to provide their names, dates-of-birth and driver’s license numbers on Tuesday evening. But they never should have left the sheets of paper, with all that information, behind at the end of the evening. A reporter from the Journal de…
IE: Credit Union investigator fined €5k over data breach
Tom Tuite provides the update on a previously reported breach: A private investigator has been fined €5,000 after he was convicted of breaking data protection laws by obtaining private personal information held by gardai and the ESB. Judge John O’Neill heard that credit unions hired the services of former garda Michael J Gaynor, now trading as…
Canada Revenue Agency privacy breach leaks prominent Canadians’ tax details
Dean Beeby reports: Detailed tax information about the private lives of hundreds of Canadians — many of them rich and famous — was sent to CBC News by Canada’s tax agency in an apparent major privacy breach. The highly confidential details, including home addresses of taxpayers and the value of tax credits they were granted,…