Alexander J. Martin reports: Brabantia, the Dutch company most well known for making steel bins, has been hacked within the last 24 hours, and customer details may have been exposed. An email Brabantia has sent to consumers explains that “as part of our routine monitoring, we have been made aware that our database accounts have…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Livid parents in the school placement request system demand answers from East Ayrshire Council after confidential information was LEAKED
Clair Fullarton reports: Sensitive details, including 13 parents’ names, addresses, phone numbers, along with children’s names and dates of birth were posted out with letters on St Andrew’s Primary placement request appeals. The list also gives siblings’ details, personal circumstances, child care arrangements and in one instance refers to a parent working away from home….
UK: South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
From the ICO: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This follows a series of incidents where patient data was sent to incorrect addresses. On investigation it was disovered that although the Trust had issued ad hoc guidance to staff following…
Global’s Response to Privacy Breach
A press statement issued by Global RESP: Global RESP Corporation “Global” and the Global family of companies have always respected and protected the public’s private information and will continue to do so. Earlier today, the OSC issued a statement regarding a former, independent Dealing Representative, Nellie Acar, who allegedly purchased patient information from an employee of…
Human error to blame as UK data breach investigations surge
John Leyden reports: UK data breach investigations within the financial services industry almost trebled over the last two years, according to figures acquired via a Freedom of Information request to the Information Commissioner’s Office, with human error almost always responsible. The 183 per cent rise in reported Data Protection Act (DPA) incidents incorporated 585 events…
AU: Multinational firm paid ransom in bitcoins to hackers who broke into systems
Joshua Robertson reports: Hackers extorted an international company based in Brisbane for a ransom paid out in bitcoin but then escalated their demands by threatening online attacks on a senior employee’s child, Queensland police have said. The company, which police refused to identify, paid the hackers an initial ransom worth thousands of dollars after its computer system…