FirstPost reports: Abhinav Shrivastava, an IIT graduate who is currently working at Ola, has been arrested by the Bengaluru police for illegally accessing the Aadhaar database. A complaint filed by the UIDAI on 26 July alleges that Shrivastava accessed the database “without authorisation between 1 January and 26 July”, reports The Indian Express. Shrivastava and a…
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UK: Patients’ records stolen from Walsall health worker’s car
Mike Woods reports: Patients’ personal therapy records were stolen from the car of a member of staff at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. The trust has admitted that therapy records of 41 patients and keys were stolen from the boot of a car in June and said it needs to ‘strengthen the processes for transporting patient…
Irish commuters warned that popular parking service provider customers’ data could have been accessed during service outage
John Hand reports: Irish commuters have been warned that a company which allows people book and pay for parking by text, app and online is investigating whether their data has been breached after a service outage. Mr Parker, which functions at 300 Luas and Irish Rail car parks, informed customers this evening that some sensitive…
NHS staff personal data leaked in latest data breach
Nick Ismail reports: The details of hundreds of junior doctors has been mistakenly published online by an NHS trust, according to the Health Service Journal. In wake of this news – an instance of another data protection failure – Phil Codd, managing director Ireland & UKI Regional Director at SQS Group, is calling for the NHS…
CNIL Fines Rental Car Company for Data Security Failure Attributable to Third-Party Service Provider
Hunton & Williams explain: On July 27, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) imposed a fine of €40,000 on a French affiliate of the rental car company, The Hertz Corporation, for failure to ensure the security of website users’ personal data. On October 15, 2016, the CNIL was informed of the existence of a…
Ransomware: Canadian company pays $425,000
Luke Irwin writes: A Canadian organization has reportedly paid criminals $425,000 in bitcoin after its systems were crippled in a ransomware attack. The claim comes from Daniel Tobok, CEO of forensic firm Cytelligence, which he says is helping with the investigation. Tobok, speaking to IT World Canada, didn’t name the affected company, but said unpatched…