Yatish Yadav reports: If you have an Aadhaar Card and if your bank accounts and other sensitive information are linked to it, chances are that your data is no longer secure. For the first time, the Modi government has officially acknowledged that personal identity of individuals, including Aadhaar number and other sensitive information, has been…
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McDonald’s Canada says 95,000 affected in careers website hack
The Canadian Press reports: McDonald’s Canada says the jobs section of its website has been hacked, compromising the personal information of about 95,000 applicants over the last three years. The company said Friday the accessed information included names, addresses, phone numbers, employment histories and other standard job application information of those who applied online between…
Data breach as details about MPs’ staff published in error
BBC reports: Confidential personal information about 3,000 MPs’ staff and their salaries has been mistakenly published by the expenses watchdog. IPSA said staff names and details about their working and holiday patterns was available for about four hours on an old version of its website on Thursday. It insisted that no addresses, bank account details…
NZ: Sacked Waikato medics snooped into patient files
Aaron Leaman reports: Prying into patient files cost two Waikato Hospital staff their jobs and prompted two others to resign. Twelve privacy or confidentiality breaches have been committed by Waikato staff since 2012. Offences range from unauthorised snooping on medical records, to misdirected emails. Patient privacy came under the spotlight earlier this month after Auckland District Health Board announced…
Ca: Carleton staff, students urged to change passwords after potential security breach
Michelle McQuigge reports: Carleton University is urging caution among staff and students after discovering potential hacking tools on a handful of classroom computers. The university says it discovered USB key-logging devices on six classroom computers across three university buildings. Carleton says staff discovered the devices last week during what it called a routine classroom inspection,…
VN: 5,000 health insurance cards issued with incorrect information
VNS reports: Local health insurance authorities of the central province of Nghệ An have issued some 5,000 health insurance cards with wrong personal information, the provincial authority has said. A group of supervisors from the province’s People’s Council released the figure in a report after conducting urgent checks on local health insurance authorities in the…