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UK: Confidential documents were blown into gardens in data breach

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Dissent

Adam Shaw reports: A North London council has suspended its bin collection provider from handling sensitive material after letters containing residents’ personal information were blown into gardens and gutters. Brent Council is investigating a “data breach” after council documents fell off a Veolia truck on its way to a depot in Croydon. Read more at…

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Names and addresses of 620 FSB officers published in data breach

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Dissent

Tom Ball reports: The names and addresses of 620 people who are said to be FSB officers were published yesterday in what Kyiv said was a huge data breach of the Russian security agency. The Ukrainian directorate of intelligence claimed that the list included the personal details of agents engaging in “criminal activities” across Europe….

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Ph: Fines for data privacy breach capped at P5 million

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Dissent

Ranier Allan Ronda reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has set a ceiling of P5 million on fines imposed on data privacy violators, following a revision of its penalty system based on public consultations. The NPC presented its revised schedule of administrative fines set under the updated Circular on Administrative Fines and the scope of…

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Hong Kong electoral office apologizes after employee accidentally sends details of 15,000 voters to random email

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Dissent

Kathleen Magramo reports: Hong Kong’s electoral office has apologised after an employee failed to follow guidelines and sent the personal details of about 15,000 voters to a random email address. The Registration and Electoral Office (REO) on Friday said the staff member intended to send files containing electors’ particulars to her personal email address on…

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Hotel WiFi across MENA compromised and exposing private data

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Dissent

Kareem Chehayeb reports: Pakistani cybersecurity researcher Etizaz Mohsin was in a hotel room in Qatar when he unexpectedly discovered a technical vulnerability in its internet system that exposed the private information of hundreds of hotels and millions of guests worldwide. […] “I found out that there is a service running rsync [file synchronization tool], which…

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Data leak at Desjardins: Industry watchdog wants to ban mortgage broker

Posted on March 25, 2022 by Dissent

Hugo Joncas reports (machine translation follows): Mathieu Joncas, who is also a private lender, bought confidential information on “150,000 to 200,000” Desjardins customers without ensuring their consent. During the hearings, he admitted having given this information to a fellow broker in January 2017. In September 2021, the disciplinary committee of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage…

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