Jared Savage reports: Ten Work and Income staff members have been sacked after two inquiries into breaches of privacy for beneficiaries. The national review of the Ministry of Social Development was launched last December after an investigation into staff at the Manukau branch office. Seven were dismissed for “appalling” breaches of the code of conduct…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: Diggers’ personal details released in email
Privacy concerns have been raised after the personal details of thousands of former Australian Defence Force personnel were wrongly sent out in an email. The Defence Community Organisation, which helps families adjust to military life, emailed a database of nearly 2,500 former Defence staff to around 400 other ex-service personnel. The information included names, identification…
Gegevens 800.000 Nederlanders gestolen door hacker (800,000 Dutch data stolen by hackers)
Via Google translation: The databases of several major websites are stolen by criminals after a Proserve internet server was hacked. In total, data from approximately 800,000 persons have been stolen. These large databases, including Q-Music, Stedin, the Telegraaf Media Groep café, and various online stores such as Pleinshoppen, Internetbikes en Brekelmans Modelbouw. Read more on…
Elections Ontario breach update
Two memory sticks with some information on voters registered with Elections Ontario are missing because personnel did not follow protocol. Earliest reports on the breach involving Elections Ontario said that the data were encrypted. Later reports are now saying that the data were NOT encrypted (see official press statement) and that up to 2.4 million may…
Elections Ontario reveals privacy breach of voter data (updated)
From CBC News: Elections Ontario has discovered a privacy breach that involves the personal information of voters in up to 24 provincial ridings. CBC News has learned that memory sticks containing personal information about voters have gone missing from the office of the chief electoral officer for Ontario. The information on the missing memory sticks…
In: IIM-A suspects data theft from its servers
Haven’t seen anything on Pastebin or Twitter claiming responsibility, so I have no idea if this report is related to any kind of hacktivism, but Press Trust of India reports: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has filed a complaint with the police “apprehending” theft of data from its computer network and servers by unauthorised…