Okay, this is awful in terms of what might have happened. Kudos to the passerby who spotted it and gave it to the media to make sure that this wasn’t covered up. Alex Matthews reports: A secret police dossier containing personal details of paedophiles and their victims has been found dumped in a street in…
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In: Yatra.com breach: How to check if your data is compromised, and what to do if it is
Shilpa S. Ranipeta reports: Online travel bookings platform Yatra.com reportedly had five million records exposed in a data breach back in 2013. That means if you have an account on Yatra.com, your data is possibly in the hands of someone who shouldn’t have it. This information was tweeted by a website called ‘Have I Been…
ZA: Eastern Cape’s massive schools data loss
Msindisi Fengu reports: Nearly all data containing information about thousands of Eastern Cape schools, pupils and teachers were wiped out of a multimillion-rand digital filing system at the start of the year. A report compiled by Sizwe IT Group, the company that installed and commissioned the Simplivity digital system that cost the provincial education department…
Ca: Sunshine list screw-up: privacy breached for 2nd year in a row
Peter Cowan reports: For the second year in a row the provincial government’s salary disclosure includes names and salaries that shouldn’t have been released. The list, which is often called the “sunshine list” reveals the names and salary information for anyone making more than $100,000. Read more on CBC.
CBC privacy breach was bigger, broader than 1st announced
Dean Beeby reports: A privacy breach at CBC/Radio-Canada was larger than initially reported, involving 23,675 employees, former employees, contractors and others, internal documents show. The corporation said on May 16 — when it first announced the breach — that 20,008 people were affected. That’s the number it reported to the privacy commissioner of Canada. But…
AU: Cyanweb Solutions hit by “criminal hacking”, website data and backups lost
Nico Arboleda and Steven Kiernan report what is pretty much a total destruction breach: Digital marketing and web provider Cyanweb Solutions lost nearly all customer data and backups after a “criminal hacking incident” that compromised one of its servers last week. The three-staff, Perth-based company provides web design, hosting, online marketing and search engine optimisation for…