Charles Anderson reports: A review of the Earthquake Commission’s handling of the privacy breach that revealed the details of all Canterbury claimants found the error could have been avoided. The breach might not have happened if EQC had learned lessons from a similar breach at another government agency, the review said. In early 2013, 83,000…
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UK: Crown Office worker guilty of leaking court case details
The Herald Scotland reports: A Crown Office worker has been found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act and Data Protection Act by leaking information about court cases to people he knew. Iain Sawers, 25, was convicted after a seven-day trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. A jury returned guilty verdicts on charges of attempting to…
IE: Private investigators charged with ‘blagging’ personal data
Elaine Edwards reports on a breach case previously noted on this blog: Two private investigators have appeared in court charged with allegedly ‘blagging’ personal information on a number of individuals from both the Department of Social Protection and the HSE nd with passing it to credit unions. Margaret Stuart (56) and Wendy Martin< (45), both directors of MCK Rentals…
The unknown cyber threats sweeping Sweden
Melanie Watson writes: Over a four-week period earlier this year, KPMG studied [14 organizations] in Sweden to gather information relating to malicious traffic. During this time period, 15,586 security alerts were recorded. […] Astonishingly, 93% of those organisations that took part were ‘breached’ in the given time frame. The word ‘breached’ in this report has been defined by…
IE: Munster refer email incident to Data Protection Commission
Ruaidhri O’Connor reports: MUNSTER have engaged the Data Protection Commissioner over last week’s incident when a sensitive player review document ended up in the hands of the squad by mistake. Chief executive Garrett Fitzgerald said the province have engaged legal advice as they acknowledged that the communication was received in error by their players last…
PK: Hackers take down govt websites, leak bank records
A group of Pakistani hackers temporarily brought down several government portals, including that of the Army, and leaked 23,000 bank records in a bid to support the ongoing anti-government protests in the country. The group calling themselves “Anonymous Op Pakistan” hacked over two dozen government websites overnight, a few of which remained inaccessible. Some of…