Joel Locsin reports: Following a data breach discovered last week, URL shortening service Bitly has enabled two-factor authentication to protect its account holders. In a blog post, Bitly chief technology officer Rob Platzer also said they traced the compromise to an unauthorized access to the account of one of the company’s employees. “We immediately enabled two-factor authentication…
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New Zealand dentists hit by online privacy breach
Thomas Mead reports: Thousands of Kiwi dentists have been stung by a serious privacy breach which saw their private information published to the internet. The accidental release of names, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and passwords affects members of the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA). A 3news.co.nz investigation can reveal the private information may have…
CN: 100,000 Graduate Candidates’ Information Leaked?
Many on-job postgraduates applying for master degrees in China are fearing a possible leak of their personal information, the Wuhan Evening News reports on Sunday. It’s reported that many of the candidates have been receiving phone calls and text messages touting test questions and answers since they signed up for this year’s degree examination in…
ICO turns teacher with hit-list of top data breach weaknesses
John E. Dunn reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is burnishing its credentials as a centre of best practice by publishing a hit-list of the top security weaknesses it says are the root cause of many of the data breaches it investigates. Protecting Personal Data in Online Services: Learning from the Mistakes of Others serves as…
UK: Moray Council employee left sensitive info on children in a café
The Moray Council has signed an undertaking to improve data protection following an incident in July 2013 when a bundle of papers with personal and sensitive personal data was left in a local café. The papers related to a Moray Permanence Panel hearing and contained detailed reports regarding the adoption of two children, as well as shorter reports relating to…
Ie: Annual report by Data Protection Commissioner
Elaine Edwards reports: Action is needed to tackle deficiencies in how the public service protects the personal data of citizens before such action is triggered by a “crisis”, the Data Protection Commissioner has said. Billy Hawkes was speaking today on the publication of his annual report for 2013, which is his final annual report in the…