CBC News reports that Skillsoft, a company that develops and manages professional courses the government offers online through SkillsNB, exposed more than 4,000 New Brunswickers’ email addresses by accidentally using the cc: field in an email, instead of the bcc: field.
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Orange Romania fined with RON 10,000 by data protection body
Telecompaper reports: Orange Romania was fined with RON 10,000 by data protection authorities for failing to comply with the obligations concerning the application of security measures and keeping the confidentiality of end-users’ personal phone data, according to local paper Hotnews.ro. The operator was sanctioned after a customer sent a complaint saying that his replacement phone…
New GDPR Data Breach Notification Agreement Sparks Debate
Neil Ford writes: The slow, stately progress of European data protection law continues: last month in Luxembourg, ministers in the Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the EU’s Council of Ministers reached partial agreement on reforms to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). (The GDPR, you’ll remember, will replace the EU Data Protection Directive with a…
UK: Sheffield Council lost document of children’s names – authority’s data breaches exposed
Alex Evans reports: Confidential data has been lost, misplaced or leaked by Sheffield Council 22 times since February 2012, The Star can reveal today. The information includes eight letters sent to the wrong address and a document which contained children’s names going missing. In one breach, a spreadsheet naming 1,729 people who received payments from…
AU: Telstra ordered to pay AU$18K over privacy breach
Leon Spencer reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has ordered Telstra to pay AU$18,000 and apologise to a judge after it failed to tell him it had published his details in the White Pages directory. According to the OAIC, the unnamed judge — identified only as “DK” — contacted Telstra to have…
UK: Met Police computer hacker given community order by judge who says he was used as a ‘stooge’
Gareth Lightfoot reports: A teenage computer wiz who attacked the Metropolitan Police website has kept his freedom as a judge said he was used as a “stooge”. Jordan Jones, 19, was vulnerable and “preyed upon” by people who take pleasure in hacking high-level computers, a court heard. He since used his talents for good as a “poacher…