Dan Raywood reports: London’s Hackney Council has reported it has “been the target of a serious cyber-attack which is affecting many of our services and IT systems.” According to a statement from Philip Glanville, mayor of Hackney, council officers have been working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre, external experts and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local…
Category: Non-U.S.
Data leak at Covid testing call center under investigation
NL Times reports: The Dutch data protection authority AP is investigating whether health service GGD is complying with privacy rules with its coronavirus test line, the call center where Netherlands residents can book a Covid-19 test and which calls with their results. This follows stories of former employees still having access to personal data, even…
Germany: No GDPR damages after data breach
Seen at DLA Piper: One of the many open questions of data protection law in Europe is how compensation for “non-material damage” will be calculated. In contrast to personal injury claims where lawyers have (hundreds of) years of case law to call upon to help calculate compensation, there is comparatively little case law considering how…
UK: Edinburgh nurse sacked from RIE after being caught viewing records of neighbours and friends
Alasdair Clarke reports: A nurse who abused her position to read the private medical records of 28 patients has been sacked by NHS Lothian. Julie Naughton admitting to looking at the records over a six month period in 2018 without having any medical or health need. She was working at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at the time, and some…
AU: Spotless hit by ransomware attack
Ry Crozier reports: Spotless Group, the Downer-owned facilities services provider, is the latest high-profile Australian company to fall victim to ransomware attackers. iTnews learned that the company had been attacked on Friday last week, and a Downer spokesperson confirmed the infection. “We are investigating suspicious activity involving unauthorised access to a number of Spotless servers,” a…
620 applicants file joint case against IT firm which exposed voter data
Here’s a follow-up to a data leak incident that may have escaped our attention as the pandemic was absorbing a lot of attention and the news cycle in April: More than 620 claimants have come together to file a joint lawsuit against an IT firm which exposed personal data of more than 337,000 voters in…