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Data breach at the city of Winsen

Data breach at the city of Winsen

Date: 23.07.2019

Responsible body: County of Harburg

Type of data breach: List of persons banned from the house can be viewed

For eight months a list was publicly available on the website of the town of Winsen in the district of Harburg. The 28 persons on the list are banned from the official building of the city of Winsen. The list was intended for the intranet and was unintentionally published on the Internet.

Categories of data:  First name, last name, address data

Country: Germany

Source: Mopo

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