DataBreaches.net has previously reported on the case of Mathew Hutchison, a young Australian who found himself on the wrong side of the law for attempting to redirect the Indonesian faction of Anonymous away from businesses and not-for-profits in Australia. Hutchison ran afoul of Australian law because videos that he uploaded to YouTube in the name of #OpAustralia and chats…
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Wattpad users: change your Wattpad and Tumblr passwords
Wattpad‘s site claims More than 40 million people have joined Wattpad, making it the world’s largest community of readers and writers. People use Wattpad to connect with each other while they discover and share millions of free stories. Wattpad stories are available in more than 50 languages and can be read or written from any…
IE: Data chief considered stopping use of sensitive information
Elaine Edwards reports: The Data Protection Commissioner considered telling organisations to stop allowing information such as mothers’ maiden names to be used for security questions after millions of personal records were published on a government genealogy site last year. In July last year, then commissioner Billy Hawkes threatened to take enforcement action against the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht after…
AU: WA prison officer fined for snooping
A senior prison officer who used a work computer to obtain information about prisoners involved in a drugs syndicate “out of curiosity” has been fined $5000. Read about it on news.com.au.
NZ: Email outs vulnerable students
The New Zealand Herald reports: Vulnerable university students had their privacy breached in an email asking them to rate their experiences with counselling services. Dozens of Massey University students’ email addresses and names were visible in the message sent last month, in what the Privacy Commissioner’s office said was a breach of private information. A…
Privacy breach no more: Eastern Health finds missing USB in file folder
CBC News reports: Eastern Health says it’s found the missing USB flash drive containing thousands of employees’ personal information — it was in a file folder in the Human Resources department the whole time. The health authority reported a privacy breach June 19 when a drive containing sensitive information of 9,000 employees went missing. Read…