Vicky Gayle reports: A midwifery assistant who described herself as nosy snooped into 29 people’s medical records including a man who had taken an overdose and parents of her children’s friends. Brioney Woolfe was reported to the head of midwifery at Colchester General Hospital when someone discovered their medical records had been shared with her…
Category: Non-U.S.
How to report a data breach under the GDPR
Conor Donnelly writes: One of the main changes under the GDPR is that all organisations must report a personal data breach to their supervisory authority within 72 hours, and in some cases to the individuals affected. What is a personal data breach? A personal data breach refers to a breach of security that can lead…
UK: TalkTalk hit with yet another monetary penalty over earlier data protection failure
TalkTalk, who was issued a £400,000 fine in October for its failure to prevent a 2015 hack, has now been hit with a £100,000 fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failure to to look after its customers’ data and leaving it at risk of falling into the hands of scammers and fraudsters: An ICO investigation…
Aadhaar e-kyc app had 88,000 downloads: Cyber police
Rajiv Kalkod reports: The cyber crime police investigating the alleged theft of Aadhaar data by IIT grad Abhinav Srivastava, 31, found that the Aadhaar e-kyc app he developed had been downloaded by over 88,000 people from Google PlayStore. During the initial investigation, police said the app had been downloaded 40,000 times between January and July this…
Italian bank UniCredit admits data breaches affecting 400,000 customers
Luke Irwin reports: UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank, has admitted that it suffered two data breaches in the past year, affecting 400,000 customers in total. In a statement, the bank confirmed that no passwords were stolen in the attacks, which occurred between September and October of 2016 and then June and July this year. UniCredit did…
Turkish hackers attack Armenian webpages again
Public Radio of Armenia reports: Turkish hackers continue to attack the Armenian virtual territory, Artsakhpress reports. Supporting Azerbaijani hackers, Turkish hackers have attacked seven Armenian websites, information security expert Samvel Martirosyan said. “Those are substantially touristic websites. The Official webpage of the Development Foundation of Armenia is among the cracked websites”, he said. The hackers…