Aaron Rogan reports: The home addresses of hundreds of Irish people have been published online in a data breach by a pharmaceutical company. A cybersecurity expert said the error may leave people vulnerable to hackers as the company also shared email addresses that may be linked to other online accounts. As part of a promotion…
Category: Non-U.S.
Sask. Health Authority sends more private health info to computer shop, says frustrated owner
This is still happening? It shouldn’t be. At what point should they be required to abandon using fax? Alicia Bridges of CBC reports: The Saskatchewan Health Authority has again faxed private medical information about a patient to a North Battleford computer shop, according to the frustrated owner of the business. Darryl Arnold says his company fax…
UK: ICO slams Carphone Warehouse with £400,000 penalty; inadequate security contributed to 2015 hack
If you’ve been following along since 2015, you may recall a breach involving Carphone Warehouse that was first disclosed in August, 2015. At the time, we were told that the hack affected 2.4 million customers’ data and about 90,000 customers’ credit cards. Fast forward to today, when the U.K.’s Information Commissioner announced that it has…
Ca: Regina Public investigated after teacher breached students’ privacy
Here is the argument for more education and training. Ashley Martin reports: The Regina Public School Division is addressing policy gaps after a teacher uploaded more than 2,000 documents, many containing students’ information, to a public website. Some of the information was online for 15 months before the privacy breach was reported to the Office…
UK Government Consults on EU Cybersecurity Plans
Mark Young and Joseph Jones report: As we summarized last fall, the EU Commission published a new Cybersecurity Communication in September that, among other things, sets out proposals for an EU cybersecurity certification framework as part of an EU “Cybersecurity Act” (see our post here and a more detailed summary here). Just before the holidays, on December 20, 2017, the UK Government…
UIDAI firewalls 5,000 officials post ‘breach’
Surabhi Agarwal reports that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has taken steps to prevent a future breach like the one that caused a media firestorm when a reporter was able to easily purchase access to Aadhaar credentials. UIDAI has now restricted the access of those who were previously able to access information more…