Alun Jones reports: Confidential and personal details were sent to the wrong people by staff at Companies House in Cardiff, BBC Wales has learned. A Freedom of Information request revealed 13 breaches of data protection law at the agency’s headquarters in 2014. Read more on BBC.
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AU: 5,000 University of Sydney students notified that hack exposed their details (Updated)
Tim Asimakis reports: Thousands of students were today contacted by Duncan Ivison, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and informed that, due to an an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers. According to the email, the University’s Information Security Team identified that the ORSEE…
NL: Dutch house approves law on personal data breach reporting
Telecompaper reports: The lower house of the Dutch parliament has approved legislation requiring businesses and organisations to report security breaches of personal data they hold. The Law on Personal Information will be expanded to include the new requirement, which applies to businesses of all sizes as well as public sector agencies. Read more on Telecompaper.
UK: A bad day in court for Medway Council
Jon Baines writes: If the Information Commissioner (IC) reasonably requires any information for the purpose of determining whether a data controller has complied or is complying with the data protection principles, section 43 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) empowers him to serve a notice on the data controller requiring it to furnish him with specified…
NZ: Hacker avoids conviction over university cyber-attack
Brendan Manning reports: A 20-year-old Auckland computer hacker has been discharged without conviction after launching a cyber-attack on the University of Melbourne in 2011. Neil McDonald appeared before Judge Pippa Sinclair at the North Shore District Court today facing one charge of intentionally accessing a computer system without authority. The charge faces a maximum penalty…
SG: Nanyang Polytechnic alumni database breached, bank details stolen
Channel NewsAsia reports: The database system for Nanyang Polytechnic‘s (NYP) former students was compromised, and bank details were stolen, according to the school. About 240 former students, mostly from its 1994 to 1999 batches, were affected by the breach, and NYP issued a letter to inform them of the incident on Feb 5. The hacker…