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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.

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.

Apple's IPhones could apparently be spied on for more than 2 years. For example, a woman claiming to be Chinese spyware...

Once again, CSS billing data has been sent to the wrong customers via the online portal of the Swiss health insurance company.

The State Office for Data Protection Supervision has started investigations against the BRK regarding a possible transfer of health data to Facebook.

The Swedish Data Protection Agency imposes its first fine for GDPR violation on a school in Skelleftea.

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 breakdown at the police in Thuringia. In the Unstrut-Hainich office, personal data of 134 police officers were transmitted unencrypted.

The ban on photography in public institutions is not a consequence of the basic data protection regulation. Uncontrolled publication is a cause for concern.

The Federal Data Protection Commissioner calls for more reliability and clarity with regard to anonymised Internet data. Learn more.