Ben Nielsen and Rebecca Puddy report: An online ticketing company has moved quickly to fix a “potential data leak” after a university student claimed the personal details of thousands of people had been revealed. In a statement posted on its website, Get said it had “immediately acted” following reports of a “potential vulnerability” in its…
Category: Non-U.S.
Il: Netanyahu’s Party Exposed Personal Details, Political Affiliation of Millions of Israelis
Hagai Amit reports: Who supports Likud? Anyone could have found that out until Sunday afternoon, using the party’s database, which contained information about four million Israelis that appears in the country’s voter registration rolls. The party blocked access to the website just 20 minutes after Haaretz called on Sunday to inquire why these data were…
Ca: Potential health data breach exposing names, medical conditions discovered by privacy researcher
Francesca Fionda reports: Up on the roof of the Vancouver Public Library, privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis connects a small antenna to her laptop to listen in on what appears to be a major ongoing breach of sensitive health data of patients in the Vancouver area. For months, she says, personal information has been sent…
Data breach after lax NZTA security
Phil Pennington reports: The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has admitted to a technology botch up leaving what was meant to be a highly secure data key wide open. “The transport agency can confirm the Google API was incorrectly left open as part of the Traffic Watcher pre-production set up,” NZTA said in statement. Read…
Oh good grief, Saturday edition
Seen on Twitter: BREAKING: Dutch hospital that just got fined 460.000 euro by Dutch DPA for staff snooping in medical files, is in the news today again: staff used medical files as grocery list. Left them in shopping cart supermarket. Compliance is a cultural issue!https://t.co/LhVELzgL8J #GDPR — Jeroen Terstegge (@PrivaSense) September 7, 2019 A google…
UK: Gender identity clinic leaks almost 2,000 patients’ email addresses
Chris Fox reports: The Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic sent patients an email about an art competition, with hundreds of others CC-ed in. The clinic later tried to recall the message but the error had already been noticed. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for the clinic, is investigating. Read more…