Yle reports: An error by the Finnish tax authority Vero, in which approximately 27,000 customers received letters containing information relating to other individuals, has created a serious data protection situation, according to the Assistant Data Protection Commissioner Jari Råman. “It is always a serious situation when personal information goes to the wrong place. Especially if…
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Air New Zealand data breach: 112,000 Airpoints customers potentially affected after employees fell for phishing attack
TVNZ reports: Air New Zealand is warning over 100,000 Airpoints members that some of their data may have been breached in a cyber attack. The airline emailed customers today apologising and warning them to be on the lookout for phishing emails. The Privacy Commissioner John Edwards told 1 NEWS he was made aware of the…
Bulgaria’s Data Breach Suspect Sent Back to Custody
Reuters reports: The owner of a Bulgarian cyber security company has been sent back into custody, a court said on Thursday, as part of an investigation into the nation’s biggest data breach. The Appellate Specialized Court said Tad Group owner Ivan Todorov, accused of instigating last month’s attack on state tax agency NRA that compromised…
NT police chief admits officers breached privacy of public servant’s medical records
Steven Shubert reports: Reece Kershaw, the Northern Territory’s Police Commissioner and soon-to-be federal police chief, has admitted some of his officers inappropriately accessed the private medical records of a public servant. But NT Police won’t say if the department the man worked for was involved, nor if the officers responsible have been disciplined. Luke Horsfall,…
AU: TAFE NSW staff details stolen after computer systems allegedly hacked
Sarah Swain reports: Computer hackers have allegedly breached TAFE NSW’s payroll system and stolen bank details of at least two dozen staff, TAFE and a victim of the hack said. Around 30 employees have not been paid on time after having personal information stolen in what TAFE NSW said was a “targeted phishing attack”. Read…
1to1Help.net gets injunction against DataBreaches.net; Seeks criminal charges against blogger
From the you-really-should-have-read-my-About-page dept: In today’s episode of “Shoot the Messenger,” a company in India that apparently didn’t want me reporting on their data leak got a court there to issue an injunction barring me from publishing. They also filed a criminal complaint against me and this blog based on what appears to be a…