Otago Daily Times reports: About 1000 people’s privacy was breached in an email sent out by a medical clinic. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards tweeted about the breach this morning, imploring people to be careful. “Come on people, it’s not rocket surgery!” part of the tweet said. Further information from the commission showed the privacy of…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: Blood Service escapes penalties in data breach investigation
Allie Coyne reports: The Australian Red Cross Blood Service and its website contractor have escaped penalties from the country’s privacy watchdog over a 2016 data breach that exposed the data of 550,000 donors. In late October last year the Blood Service revealed its website partner Precedent had inadvertently exposed a 1.74GB database backup containing 1.28 million…
Car lease companies’ poor cyber security exposed over 180,000 drivers
DutchNews.nl reports: Cyber security at some 50 car lease companies operating in the Netherlands was so bad that private details about at least 180,000 company car drivers was easily accessed by an IT firm, the AD said on Monday. The leak was discovered by Sliedrecht-based company ESET which was looking for a new company car…
UK government sets out tougher guidelines to protect smart cars from hackers
Kylie MacLellan reports: The British government issued new guidelines on Sunday requiring manufacturers of internet-connected vehicles to put in place tougher cyber protections to ensure they are better shielded against hackers. The government said it was concerned that smart vehicles, which allow drivers to do things such as access maps and travel information, could be…
AU: Sensitive details of vulnerable children in care released in department bungle
Nino Bucci reports: The personal details of children in care, including whether they were sexually active, was accidentally sent to the mother of one of the children in a troubling information breach. A spreadsheet was emailed to the mother outlining the name, birthdate, location, and specific concerns and alerts relating to all children in the…
Not exactly the best-laid plan….
Spoiler alert: so this probably wasn’t the best-planned crime. The New Indian Express reported this in July: In a case of corporate espionage, a computer engineer’s bid to sell his employer’s data to a company, which he thought was a competitor, fell flat when the recipient discovered the two firms are in fact partners, and…