Julie Iles reports that estimates of the PageUp breach impact on BP applicants has increased significantly: BP says a hack of its online recruitment portal has compromised the data of more job applicants than initially suspected. BP has emailed about 60,000 people who applied for jobs in its retail stores since 2008 to notify them they could have…
Category: Non-U.S.
NZ: Investigation, apology after doctor loses confidential breast cancer patient files
Kirsty Johnston reports: A doctor lost a file containing highly sensitive information about breast cancer patients, while walking between a hospital and a radiation clinic, it has emerged. Police have been called over the blunder amid fears someone has found the document and plans to make it public. Both agencies involved – Southern District Health…
Singapore Taekwondo Federation fined $30,000 for leak of students’ data
ChannelNewsAsia reports: The Singapore Taekwondo Federation has been fined S$30,000 after the NRIC numbers of 782 minors were disclosed via PDF documents on its website. The issue was discovered on May 19 last year when a complainant came across PDF documents with the names and schools of students participating in the 2017 Annual Inter-School Taekwondo Championships,…
User data exposed in Domain Factory hosting security breach
Charlie Osborne reports: German hosting provider Domain Factory has experienced a data breach which has exposed customer data. Last week, the company said [translated] an unknown threat actor posted claims on the Domain Factory forum which suggested they had managed to compromise the firm’s systems and access information. Following this statement, Domain Factory pulled its…
Police probe after adoption agency’s files found strewn on Tel Aviv street
Times of Israel reports: A Tel Aviv resident was shocked to find thousands of highly confidential documents from a leading Israeli adoption agency strewn on a sidewalk in the city. The files from the Taf adoption agency listed names of hundreds of adoptive parents and children between the years 1999-2016, and in most cases included…
NZ: Privacy breach at Disputes Tribunal
Ugh. Shane Cowlishaw reports: A sensitive case file that was misplaced at a Night and Day convenience store left a woman “understandably upset” after it was sent to the man she was locked in a dispute with. Shane Cowlishaw reports. Details of the privacy breach were revealed in a briefing to Justice Minister Andrew Little,…