Data breach: health data
Highly sensitive medical data stored worldwide on servers without password protection The approximately 16 million data records come from 50 countries worldwide. In Germany, 13,000 patients are affected.
Entries by Caroline Schwabe
Data range Facebook phone numbers
Around 420 million data records, including telephone numbers of Facebook users, primarily from the USA, Great Britain and Vietnam, were freely accessible on the Internet.
Data failure Bavarian Red Cross
The State Office for Data Protection Supervision has started investigations against the BRK regarding a possible transfer of health data to Facebook.
Data breakdown school Sweden
The Swedish Data Protection Agency imposes its first fine for GDPR violation on a school in Skelleftea.
Data breach Mastercard
Data such as mobile phone numbers, addresses and birthdays of almost 90,000 customers of the bonus program Priceless Specials have appeared on the Internet.
Data breach Biometric data
Serious data breach at Suprema, the Korean security solutions manufacturer. Fingerprint and facial recognition data was publicly available.
Twitter user data advertisers
Information on the country code and whether and when ads were viewed was passed on. According to Twitter, the data mishap was fixed on 05.08.2019.
100 million records stolen from US bank
Most of the data captured by a hacker attack originates from credit card applications and existing credit cards of the bank's customers.
Facebook fine $5 billion
The unauthorised processing of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica resulted in financial fines and structural changes.
Data breach at the Gütersloh Job Center
Data breakdown at the Gütersloh Job Center: unshredded files were disposed of in blue paper bins and were accessible to everyone.
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