British Airways, who describes itself as “The World’s Favorite Airline,” has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal details and credit-card numbers of up to 380,000 customers and lasted for more than two weeks. So who exactly are victims? In a statement released by British Airways on Thursday, customers booking flights on its website (ba.com) […]

Singapore has suffered its “most serious” data breach, compromising personal data of 1.5 million healthcare patients including that of its Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The affected users are patients of SingHealth, which is the country’s largest group of healthcare institutions comprising 42 clinical specialties, four public hospitals, five speciality centres, nine polyclinics, as well […]

The Tasmanian Electoral Commission says an “unknown attacker” has breached a server’s security and downloaded a back-up file containing the names, addresses, emails, and date-of-birth information of electors. The breach occurred through a server of the Barcelona-based company Typeform, whose online forms have been used on the TEC website since 2015 for election services, the […]

(Reuters) – New Zealand-based fuel supplier Z Energy Ltd on Wednesday said it has been presented with evidence that customer data from its Z Card Online database was accessed by a third party in November 2017. The database held customer data such as names, addresses, registration numbers, vehicle types and credit limits with the company, […]

One month on from the change in data protection laws, local organisations are responding to the higher standards expected of them under the new legislation. When data protection is done well, it builds and maintains trust between organisations and the individuals whose data they hold. We are encouraged that local organisations are extending that trust […]

Recent data breaches include an employee workstation hack putting 270,000 patients at risk, New England Baptist suffering data breach in the midst of merger talks, and cybercriminals phishing in Black River Medical Center. June 21, 2018 – A healthcare data breach at Med Associates, a Latham, NY-based health billing company, may have exposed PHI on more than […]

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) – Canada has proposed new regulations outlining how organizations, including financial firms, will report and record cyber-security breaches, assess potential harm, and notify affected individuals. The proposal, which aligns with EU data-protection rules that take effect next year, is intended to implement mandatory breach-reporting requirements described in the Digital Privacy […]

(Reuters) – A security breach at family networking and genealogy website MyHeritage leaked the data of over 92 million users, the company said in a blog posted on Monday. The breach took place on Oct. 26 last year, and consisted of the email addresses and hashed passwords of users who signed up to the website […]