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JP: More HDDs with personal data found to be auctioned

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Dissent

Officials of Kanagawa Prefecture say nine more hard disk drives with taxpayers’ personal information are still missing in addition to another nine drives that have been recovered. The 18 HDDs were auctioned away online by a worker of a recycling firm in violation of contracts. Read more on NHK.

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Fine against hospital due to data protection deficits in patient management

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Dissent

From the European Data Protection Board: The Commissioner for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information Rhineland-Palatinate imposed a fine of 105,000 euros on a hospital in Rhineland-Palatinate. The fine is based on several breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation in the framework of a patient mix-up when admitting the patient. This resulted in…

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UK: ICO enforcement action for insider snooping breach

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement: A former Social Services Support Officer at Dorset County Council has been prosecuted for accessing Social Care records without authorisation. An internal investigation found that Ms Shipsey had inappropriately accessed the Social Care records without any business need to do so. The records related to four individuals known…

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Dutch politician faces three years in prison for hacking iCloud accounts and leaking nudes

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch prosecutors have asked a judge for a three-year prison sentence for a local politician who doubled as a hacker and breached the personal iCloud accounts of more than 100 women, stealing and then leaking sexually explicit photos and videos online. Read more on ZDNet.

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AU: Fears over patient data breach after cyberattack on Monash IVF

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Dissent

Melissa Cunningham reports: One of Australia’s largest IVF providers has warned patients that it could not rule out the possibility their personal information may have been breached following a widespread cyberattack on staff emails last month. Monash IVF Group, which is attached to clinics in six Australian states and territories, said scammers accessed emails, email…

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Singapore government pledges to beef up data security after breaches

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Dissent

Mia Hunt reports: The Singapore government is to establish a new Data Security Office and implement a number of measures to better safeguard citizen information, following a series of serious data leaks. The decision to set up the new unit, which will be part of the Prime Minister’s Office, comes after a committee found that…

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