Celia Grosble reports: Thousands of Queenstowners’ personal details have been exposed in an “embarrassing” major privacy breach by the district council’s regulatory organisation. Lakes Environmental has inadvertently released, via email, the details of every single complaint it’s received over the past 10 years. Read more on Scene,
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AU: Vic university results not hacked: VTAC
The AU AP reports: Students gained early access to an off-limits website though the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) says its system was not hacked. […] “The exposure was limited to an applicant being able to retrieve their own (university) offer prior to the published release time.” Students only gained early access to their own…
AU: OAIC updates information security guide
Computerworld reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released an updated information security guide with tips on stopping rogue employees and advice on using cloud storage offerings. The Guide to securing personal information replaces the older Guide to information security and is designed to help government agencies and private sector companies meet their obligations under the Australian…
UK: Customer records left exposed after shoe company data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a press release indicating that high street and online shoe retailer Office has signed an undertaking following a hacking incident the ICO was informed about on May 29, 2014. According to details in the undertaking, a member of the public had hacked into an unencrypted historic Office database that was being stored on a legacy server outside…
AU: Private details leaked after travel insurance company hacked
PM reports on another hack by “Abdilo,” The computer systems and database of one of the country’s largest travel insurance companies has been hacked, and parts of its customer database posted online. Aussie Travel Cover, a privately owned New South Wales based business has known about the hack since before Christmas, but opted not to…
TR: Education Ministry database breach leaves millions at ID theft risk
Following up on the data protection/breach problems in Turkey, BGN News reports that a breach in Ministry of Education IT system puts ID information of 15 million students, their parents, and teachers at risk: According to Cumhuriyet daily, the General Directorate of Information Infrastructure Systems as well as the General Directorate of Support Services memo titled “Password…