As a result, data was encrypted by the malware and hospital operations were significantly impaired.
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The unauthorised processing of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica resulted in financial fines and structural changes.
Facebook Messenger Kids allows kids to chat with parent-approved users. A technical error made it possible to chat with strangers.
For eight months, a list of persons banned from the official building was publicly available on the website.
Data breakdown at the Gütersloh Job Center: unshredded files were disposed of in blue paper bins and were accessible to everyone.
Data leak at the Russian secret service FSB: Hackers are said to have stolen data on current projects and operations from the Moscow spy agency.
According to the operator of a petition platform Campact, lists of signatories were publicly accessible due to a technical error.
The Dutch supervisory authority imposed a fine on Haga Hospital for insufficient security of patient records.
Already on 08.05.2019, a briefcase containing highly sensitive information is said to have been stolen from a private car by an official of the LKA.
At the end of 2018 a hacker attack on the hotel chain became known. Presumably 339 million customer data were compromised.